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Cogs in the Great Machine

Cogs in the Great Machine . Jordan Swift Jill Jones. Greeley, Colorado. This town is a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food. Home to a migrant industrial workforce. Named after a well-known newspaper editor Horace Greeley.

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Cogs in the Great Machine

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  1. Cogs in the Great Machine Jordan Swift Jill Jones

  2. Greeley, Colorado • This town is a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food. • Home to a migrant industrial workforce. • Named after a well-known newspaper editor Horace Greeley. • Greeley began as a Utopian Community dedicated to agriculture, education, mutual aid, and high moral values. • The prosperity and labor peace that were for so long central to this town, were destroyed by the IBP revolution.

  3. IBP Revolution • The IBP revolution began in Denison, Iowa • Currier J. Holman and A.D. Anderson began Iowa Beef Packers (IBP) • Applying the same labor principles to meat packing that the McDonald brothers applied to making hamburgers. • This system required very little skill from humans Moreover, IBP placed its slaughterhouses in rural areas, far away from the strong unions.

  4. Chapter Review • Schlosser does a nice job in this chapter of taking a large, change within the beef industry and giving us a clear path to observe the outcome. • In this chapter, Greeley, Colorado is important, not because it is extraordinary but because it is typical of how the IBP revolution changed the lives of everyone living there and the surrounding areas.

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