On the Line: Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South

“How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen—hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line?”—From the Preface

In this gutsy, eye—opening examination of the lives of workers in the New South, Vanesa Ribas, working alongside mostly Latino/a and native—born African American laborers for sixteen months, takes us inside the contemporary American ...