1. Why were newer meat packing plants located in rural areas rather than in cities?
They put the newer slaughter houses in rural areas, and far away from the urban strongholds of the nations labor unions because the new interstate highway system made it possible to rely upon trucks, rather than railroads, to ship meat.
2. Where do meat packing companies go to recruit new employees? What is the "new industrial migrant"?
Meat packing companies recruit refugees, asylum-seekers, and homeless peopleliving in shelters. They are recruiting these people because they have realized that will work for lower wages than a regular American citizen. IBP was among the first to recognize this fact, and one of the first to take advantage of it.
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