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Unformatted text preview: s in a state where they have few political allies. Bruce L. Braley, one
of the attorneys in Ferrell v. IBP, told me a great deal about the company’s behavior and sent me stacks of documents pertaining to the case.
“Killing Them Softly: Work in Meatpacking Plants and What It Does to Workers,” by Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway, in Any Way
You Cut It, is one of the best published accounts of America’s most dangerous job. “Here’s the Beef: Underreporting of Injuries, OSHA’s
Policy of Exempting Companies from Programmed Inspections Based on Injury Record, and Unsafe Conditions in the Meatpacking Industry,”
Forty-Second Report by the Committee on Government Operations (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988), shows the
extraordinary abuses that can occur when an industry is allowed to regulate itself. After the congressional investigation, Christopher Drew
wrote a terrific series of articles on meatpacking, published by the Chicago Tribune in October o...
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