LIFE AND DEATH OF THE AMERICAN WORKER The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

Lori Felipe-Barkin's narration brings listeners into the everyday life of a Salvadoran migrant worker, but there's something about him that isn't everyday: his repetition of chicken-killing motions while asleep. Alice Driver talked to Tyson Foods workers in Arkansas to report on the company's working conditions, including its reluctance to maintain Covid safety. Felipe-Barkin delivers accounts of a chemical leak at the plant dramatically to get listeners involved in the events. She makes the killing of chickens sound macabre and sharpens her tone to narrate the ingredients list for chicken nuggets. Driver also calls out politicians, whose relationships with the meatpacking industry she considers cozy. This audiobook may be enough to give listeners doubts at the supermarket. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2024]