Review of \u3ci\u3e Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America\u3c/i\u3e By Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway

Stull and Broadway capture fifteen years\u27 experience examining structural shifts and community consequences of an increasingly industrialized meat production system in North America, with particular attention to the meatpacking sector. Their impressive, wide-ranging coverage of changing beef, poultry, and pork production systems and their influence on rural cultures will no doubt be a staple resource for scholars, policy makers, and communities in the Great Plains and elsewhere grappling with dramatic changes in our nation\u27s food system. An initial chapter aptly outlines the contours of agricultural industrialization, followed by a chapter each devoted specifically to the three major meat sectors. The following two chapters detail the changing inner workings of the meatpacking sector, noting that despite significant technological transformations, the labor, class, and safety problems documented by Upton Sinclair a century earlier remain remarkably unchanged