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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
The Hamlet Fire A Tragic Story of Cheap Food Cheap Government and Cheap Lives
Author: Bryant Simon
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 searching for cheap labor with little or almost no official oversight. One of these businesses was Imperial Food Products. The company paid its workers a dollar above ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781620972380
ISBN-10: 1620972387
Publication Date: 9/5/2017
Pages: 320
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Publisher: The New Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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