Meat processing and Garden City, KS: Boom and bust

Broadway, Michael J.; Stull, Donald D.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2005.06.001

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“…As labor-intensive sectors, particularly food products and other nondurable manufacturing industries, seek out lower cost locations, they often invest in nonmetropolitan locations drawing (and recruiting) Latino labor to the countryside (Broadway and Stull, 2006;Cravey, 1997;Grey, 1999;Grey and Woodrick, 2002). Yet, the work presented above suggests there are other forces at work contributing to the global countryside.…”

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Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States

Nelson

Oberg

Nelson

2010

Journal of Rural Studies

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Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States

Nelson

Oberg

Nelson

2010

Journal of Rural Studies

118

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“…Rapid growth, high wages, and social disorders characterize energy boomtowns. Meatpacking has created a different kind of boomtown, with high turnover, minimal benefits, dangerous working conditions, low wages, and rising tides of impoverished residents (Broadway and Stull 2006). Some ethnographers have conducted clandestine research in meat and poultry plants (Fink 1998;Pachirat 2011;Strifler 2005).…”

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“…We favor longitudinal analysis of selected sites using long--term participant observation, in--depth interviews, and extensive review of pertinent documents. We have returned to Garden City periodically to update our research, especially following significant events, such as the fire on Christmas night 2000 that closed the ConAgra plant, putting 2,300 out of work (Broadway and Stull 2006). 1 The first of what Crowley and Lichter (2009) call Latino boomtowns, which spread from the Midwest in the 1980s to the Southeast in the 1990s, Garden City is a prime example of what the U. S. Census Bureau now defines as micropolitans: "mini--metros with rural sensibilities" or "rurbans" (Francis 2005) that blend agricultural economies commonly associated with rural areas and immigration patterns typically associated with urban areas (Brown, Colmartie and Kulcsar 2004;Zehr 2005).…”

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Cows, Pigs, Corporations, and Anthropologists

Stull

2017

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Abstract"Industrial meat" is produced by many actors-from growers to eaters, from processors to retailers, from multinational corporations to unauthorized immigrant workers. It epitomizes what Joseph Schumpeter called capitalism's "creative destruction," as companies rise and fall, all the while providing meat to an ever expanding population. For three decades, the author has critically examined the social, economic, and environmental consequences of the meat and poultry industry for livestock producers, processing workers, and host communities in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kentucky. His research has taken him not only to farms and ranches, but also to the killfloors of massive meatpacking plants. He has worked with local governments and community groups as well as union and industry representatives to apply knowledge gained from his research, and he is actively involved with advocacy groups to resist and reverse the negative consequences of the corporate concentration and vertical integration that define industrial meat and poultry production. From experience--distant research on the industry to experience--near fieldwork for the industry, the author has employed long--term, multisited ethnography to build an ethnology of the modern meat and poultry industry, and the food factories that produce and process its products.

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“…Similar to Finney County, nearby Ford and Seward Counties are equally diverse compared with the rest of Kansas (see Table 1). Geographically, these counties are within close proximity to the Colorado and Oklahoma borders and have a vibrant economy, primarily based on agriculture, meat-packing, and cattle feed lots, which are the major employers for Hispanics in this region (Broadway & Stull, 2006 …”

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Conducting a Hispanic Health Needs Assessment in rural Kansas: Building the foundation for community action

Bopp

Fallon

Bolton

et al. 2012

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Healthy People 2020 states that ethnic health disparities are a priority for the US. Although considerable national statistics document ethnic-related health disparities, information specific to rural areas is scarce and does not provide direction for implementing chronic disease prevention programming. Therefore, the purpose of our project was to undertake the Hispanic Health Needs Assessment (HHNA), a tool designed by the National Alliance for Hispanic Health (NAHH), in culturally-diverse rural Southwest Kansas. Our focus areas included: access to healthcare, heart disease, diabetes, overweight, nutrition, and physical activity. Methods: The assessment followed six steps: (1) developing the assessment team, (2) data gathering using community member surveys, existing statistics, and community leader interviews, (3) assembling the findings, (4) formulating recommendations for action at individual, institutional, community and policy levels, (5) sharing findings and program planning (6) sharing findings with NAHH. We identified several challenges collecting health related data in rural communities. But overall, the HHNA was a comprehensive and useful tool for guiding a community level health assessment.Conclusion: This process has provided our community partners with locally relevant statistics regarding the current status of health, health behaviors, and perceived community needs to inform resource allocation, program planning and applications for new funding initiatives.

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Meat processing and Garden City, KS: Boom and bust

Cited by 45 publications

References 5 publications

Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States

Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States

Cows, Pigs, Corporations, and Anthropologists

Conducting a Hispanic Health Needs Assessment in rural Kansas: Building the foundation for community action

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