Life and death of the American worker : the immigrants taking on America's largest meatpacking company
(2024)
By:
Driver, Alice
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
331.62/DRIVER,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : One Signal Publishers, Atria, 2024
EDITION
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
250 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781668078822, 1668078821 :, 1668078821, 9781668078822
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is headquartered. The company quickly covered it up although the spill left their employees injured, sick, and terrified. Over the years, Arkansas-based reporter Alice Driver was able to gain the trust of the immigrant workers who survived the accident. They rewarded her persistence by giving her total access to their lives