Скачать или смотреть Book Night: ‘Life and Death of the American Worker’ by Alice Driver (Clip 2)

On Jan. 8, 2025, the OPC hosted a book night to discuss Life and Death of the American Worker by OPC member Alice Driver. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the book begins with a deadly chemical accident at a Tyson processing plant in 2011, which the company quickly covered up. Driver was able to gain the trust of the immigrant workers who survived the horrific incident and its aftermath.

Yaffa Fredrick, Senior Director of Investigations at The Houston Chronicle, moderated.

In this clip, Driver talked about the history of the meat packing industry, and its place in American identity and sense of masculinity.

During the course of Driver’s reporting, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the community, and the workers were forced to continue production in unsafe conditions, watching their colleagues get sick and die one by one. These essential workers, many of whom only speak Spanish and some of whom are illiterate, found the strength and courage to organize and fight back, culminating in a lawsuit against Tyson Foods.

The book is available to purchase here:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/book...