Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experience there as a worker. He also reports on the way chickens are raised today and how they are ...

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From a vivid account of working as the ""flour boy"" breading chicken on the line to a detailed expose of the human rights abuses of ""Big Chicken,"" Striffler's concise text offers a perspective fans ...

pt. I. A new bird -- 1. Love that chicken! -- 2. An American industry -- 3. Anatomy of a merger -- 4. The right to work -- pt. II. A new worker -- 5. Getting here -- 6. Inside a poultry plant -- 7.