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CHAPTER 7 - COGS IN THE GREAT MACHINE
Summary
This chapter opens in Greeley, Colorado--a small meatpacking
town, home to a migrant industrial workforce. Greeley, named after the well-known
newspaper editor Horace Greeley, began in 1870 as a utopian community dedicated
to agriculture, education, mutual aid, and high moral values. However, the prosperity
and labor peace that were for so long central to Greeley, were destroyed by the
IBP revolution.
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The IBP revolution began in Denison, Iowa when Currier J. Holman and A.D. Anderson began Iowa Beef Packers (IBP), applying the same labor principles to meat packing that the McDonald brothers applied to making hamburgers. This system required very little skill from its human operators. Moreover, IBP placed its slaughterhouses in rural areas--far away from the strong unions established in.........
Notes
Schlosser does a nice job
in this chapter of taking a large, confusion change within the beef industry and
giving his reader a concrete location to observe the specific outcomes. In this
chapter, Greeley, CO is important, not because it is extraordinary (although it
is a rich source due to the way it was founded and Ken Monfort’s presence) but
because it is typical of how the IBP revolution changed the lives of.........
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