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

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, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to f…

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