Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway. Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004. xviii + 172 pp. ISBN 0-534-61303-9, $25.95 (paper).

In the late 1980s Donald Stull and Michael Broadway launcheda remarkable collaborative project on the contemporary meatpackingindustry, on which Slaughterhouse Blues is based. With researchfunded in part by a massive Ford Foundation grant, Stull andBroadway brought a basketball team of social scientists to smalltowns in the Midwest where today’s huge packinghousesare located. The astounding productivity of this group runsto more than fifty articles in journals