Labor shortages and the unmaking of class in Mississippi's poultry plants.
Following 2019 immigration raids at seven Mississippi poultry plants and the beginning of mass infection in meatpacking plants early in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Mississippi meatpackers announced a "labor shortage" and lobbied for government intervention to force workers back into the plants. Like...
| Publicado en: | Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 475 - 501 |
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