Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Driver, Alice
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Driver, Alice

Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a...
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Author: Alice Driver
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Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Driver, Alice

Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

$44.23
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company by Driver, Alice

Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

$44.23
Author: Alice Driver
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a "startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry's abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers" (The New York Times Book Review) and those who had the courage to fight back.

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 urged everyone return to work, 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.

During the course of Alice's reporting, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the community, and the workers were forced to continue production in unsafe conditions, watching their colleagues get sick and die one by one. These essential workers, many of whom only speak Spanish and some of whom are illiterate--all of whom suffer the health consequences of Tyson's negligence--somehow found the strength and courage to organize and fight back, culminating in a lawsuit against Tyson Foods, the largest meatpacking company in America.

A richly detailed, fiercely honest, and deeply reported "tour de force" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Life and Death of the American Worker will forever change the way we think about the people who prepare our food.

Author: Alice Driver
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Published: 09/03/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781668078822


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2024
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2024

About the Author
Alice Driver is a J. Anthony Lukas and James Beard Award-winning writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. Driver is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker, More or Less Dead, and the forthcoming Artists All Around, a memoir about her family's relationship with Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. She is also the translator of Abecedario de Juárez. She lives in the Ozark Mountains.
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