The Hamlet Fire A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives【電子書籍】[ Bryant Simon ]

＜p＞For 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 in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. 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. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る