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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

"Captivating and brilliantly conceived. . . [The Hamlet Fire] will provide readers with insights into our current national politics."―The Washington Post A "gifted writer" (Chicago Tribune) uses a long forgotten factory fire in small-town North Carolina to show how cut-rate food and labor have become the new American normFor decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses searching for cheap labor with little or almost no official oversight. One of these businesses was Imperial Food Products. The company paid its workers a dollar above the minimum wage to stand in pools of freezing water for hours on end, scraping gobs of fat off frozen chicken breasts before they got dipped in batter and fried into golden brown nuggets and tenders. If a worker complained about the heat or the cold or missed a shift to take care of their children or went to the bathroom too often they were fired. But they kept coming back to work because Hamlet was a place where jobs were scarce. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the day after Labor Day, this factory that had never been inspected burst into flame. Twenty-five people―many of whom were black women with children, living on their own―perished that day behind the plant’s locked and bolted doors. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past. After spending several years talking to local residents, state officials, and survivors of the fire, award-winning historian Bryant Simon has written a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that shows how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was bound for tragedy.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 1620972387

 

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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap
The Hamlet Fire presents the smoldering death day of those twenty five small town North Carolinians not as an industrial accident. Simon heroically presents this tragedy as a regularity in the unknown life of present day industrial America where ‘cheap’ lives lavishly and valued life is dead. The Hamlet Fire is an oracle."
The Hamlet Fire | Bryant Simon | University of North
Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never inspected chicken processing plant a stone’s throw from Hamlet’s city hall burst into flames. Twenty five people perished that day behind the plant’s locked and bolted doors.
The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap
Bryant Simon uses the tragedy of a fire at a Hamlet, NC chicken factory in 1991 that killed a number of workers due to unsafe working conditions to discuss issues that still exist today. The pursuit of cheap food, profit, deregulation, lax oversight, and the view that certain people are disposable all led to this tragedy, and continue to persist over 25 years later.
The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap
However, as award winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination.
Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap
Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives. By Bryant Simon | Journal of Social History | Oxford Academic. In this book Bryant Simon examines the 1991 fire at Imperial Food Products in Hamlet, North Carolina, that claimed 25 workers' lives from the inhalation of toxi. We use cookies to enhance your experience on ...
The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap
Reporters flocked to Hamlet after the fire. Journalists tracked down survivors on the street and knocked on the doors of grieving spouses, aunts, uncles, and friends. They camped outside of the fire station just off Main Street waiting to ask Chief David Fuller about sprinklers, locked doors, and the absence of lighted exits with panic bars in ...
Bryant Simon The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap
Bryant Simon’s The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives is marked at times by understated acrimony and, at others, by unbearable poignancy. Perhaps, more than anything, it is revelatory in a way much needed in studies of the characteristics that typify southern agribusiness—particularly food processing.
The Deadly 1991 Hamlet Fire Exposed the High Cost of
The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past.
The Hamlet Fire | The New Press
The Hamlet Fire presents the smoldering death day of those twenty five small town North Carolinians not as an industrial accident. Simon heroically presents this tragedy as a regularity in the unknown life of present day industrial America where ‘cheap’ lives lavishly and valued life is dead.

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