Online Material:

Labor Rights:

• “Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants.”  Human Rights Watch.  2005.
• “Dignity on the Line: An Evaluation of the Nebraska Meatpacking Workers Bill of Rights.”  Nebraska Appleseed.  November 2006.  18 p.  
•  “Workers Rights as Human Rights.”  James A. Gross, Ed.  256 p.

Immigrant Rights/Raids:

• Congressional Testimony of Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas.  July 2008.  20 p.
• National Immigrant Justice Center, “National Immigration Forum Backgrounder: Immigration Law Enforcement by State and Local Police,” September 2007.
• “Over-Raided, Under Siege: US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Destroy the Rights of Immigrants.”  From the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.  January 2008.
• The Urban Institute, "Paying the Price: the Impact on Immigration Raids on America’s Children." 2007.

Economic, Social and Cultural Impacts of Migrant Labor in Meatpacking:

• Ahlberg, Dennis A. "The New Minnesotans: How Are They Doing in Economic Terms?" CURA Reporter, Summer 2005, p. 3-9. 
• Kathy Fennelly, “Prejudice towards Immigrants in the Midwest,” Chapter 6, in Douglas Massey, Ed., New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration Russell Sage: New York, 2008.
• Kathy Fennelly and Helga Leitner, “How the Food Processing Industry is Diversifying in Minnesota,” Julian Samora Research Institute: 2002.
• Minnesota Immigrant Health Task Force, Immigrant Health, "A Call to Action: Recommendations from the Minnesota Immigrant Health Task Force." Minneapolis: Minnesota Dept. of Health, 2005.
• Office of the Legislative Auditor, "Economic Impact of Immigrants" (May 25, 2006).
• Office of Strategic Planning and Results Management, "The Impact of Illegal Immigration in Minnesota." St. Paul: 2005 

Suggested Films:

• Fast Food Nation (2006)
• Mississippi Chicken (2007)

Suggested Books:

• Fink, Deborah.  Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture), University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
• Horowitz, Roger. Negro and White Unite and Fight!: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90 (Working Class in American History), 1997.
• Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation, Harper Perennial, 2005.
• Sinclair, Upton.  The Jungle, 1905. 
• Stromquist, Shelton and Marvin Bergman. Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meat-Packing Industry, 1997.
• Warren, Wilson J. Tied to the Great Meatpacking Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007.

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