Wilson J. Warren is professor and chair of the department of history at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. He has published two previous books with the University of Iowa Press on the history and significance of the meat industry: Struggling with “Iowa’s Pride”: Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877 (2000) and Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking (2007).

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