Dispatch from Postville

The day starts like any other in Postville, a town in northern Iowa. Years ago, a slaughterhouse and processing plant for beef, turkey and chicken had opened. Its name: Agriprocessors. The typical routine for any worker of the sort that was employed there was to start by getting up at whatever hour...

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Main Authors: Herrera, Elver, Cooley, Jennifer, Translator
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: UNI ScholarWorks 2018
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Postville
Online Access:https://scholarworks.uni.edu/universitas/vol13/iss1/7
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/context/universitas/article/1217/viewcontent/07_herrera_dispatch_forum_immigration_vol13_2017_2018.pdf
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