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Bryant Simon: The Hamlet Fire (EBook, 2020, University of North Carolina Press) 5 stars

"Just over twenty-five years ago, on the day after Labor Day, a chicken processing factory …

wide-swept labor history

5 stars

Incredible labor history, focused intently on a single tragic factory fire in a small North Carolina town, but with chapters diving deep into the political, economic, and sociological history of why neoliberal American industry sought out and created internally colonized places of ever cheapened government, food, health, and lives. He even fit all that in the subtitle, bravo, highly recommended.