| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking. By Wilson J. Warren. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xii + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

Wilson Warren's first book, Struggling with "Iowa's Pride": Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877 (Iowa City, 2000) focused on the midwestern meatpacking industry and traced the ways in which workers struggled to achieve a measure of dignity and economic security in the one-industry town of Ottumwa. Well-received by social and labor historians, this volume distinctively charted both the gains won by organized labor in the mid-twentieth century and ways in which these victories unraveled as meatpacking changed structurally in the 1960s and 1970s. It is no surprise, then, that the book under review here covers much the same ground. It does so admirably by casting a wider net, synthesizing a vast historical and contemporary literature, and delving into several novel areas.

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