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120 “Welcome to the penitentiary!” a thin Black man bellows energetically through his beard net as we step through the front entrance of the chicken plant. After several years of hearing workers’ horror stories about this work, I can appreciate his humor. “Management couldn’t have planned a more appropriate greeting,” I chuckle silently as I look around. I’ve managed to join a plant tour as part of the Super Chicken Road Show, which aims to entice graduating college students to work in poultry production.1 Recruits start out on the production lines, learning every aspect of chicken slaughter before moving into management. It’s a hard sell, and this welcoming committee can’t be helping his employer’s cause. The blue concrete-block break room bustles with activity—booths of beleaguered workers eat their lunches, visit, and rush to “doff” and “don” damp and greasy safety equipment. At one table a Black woman sits with a Latino couple, communicating mostly with animated hand signals. They are the exception. In general, the Black and Latino workers keep their distance. A lone group of white women in one corner concentrates intently on their food. Poultry processors take advantage of and encourage such divisions by segregating manufacturing tasks along lines of race and gen6 A Bone to Pick labor control and the painful work of chicken processing a b o n e t o p i c k 121 der, a strategy that increases their control over the workforce. But I’ve learned that despite different experiences on the plant floor, workers of all backgrounds complain of exploitation, injuries, and abuse. They just don’t always recognize these commonalities as grounds for coming together. My anthropological gaze breaks as our group is whisked into the “laundry room,” where we suit up with hairnets, smocks, earplugs, goggles, and shoe covers. Our guide, Diane, proudly announces that our smocks are made of recycled chicken feathers before warning us about what we are about to witness. “Just let me know if you need a break, and we can step out, okay?” If only workers needing breaks encountered such empathy. We walk through swinging metal doors and down a concrete hallway. We begin our tour where the live chickens arrive for slaughter. “Down there, that’s where it all begins. The live hang room. Can you see them live chickens comin’ in on the belt?” I press my face against a thick, scarred glass window and peer down into a dark room one floor below. Human figures, draped in white smocks and hairnets like the one I currently wear, move frenetically, elbow to elbow, in two parallel lines. By the dim light of the bare red bulbs hanging above them, I make out the faint white forms of chickens flooding the work area. At a pace of perhaps a bird per second, each worker is snatching up chickens and hanging them upside down on metal shackles that motor past at an alarming speed. Diane explains that the darkness keeps the chickens calm, but to me the red lights evoke the hellish conditions under which the mostly Latino men below us are working . I’m not alone, as someone else on the tour marvels, “It looks like the underworld in Mad Max beyond Thunderdome!” The wall where the chickens enter the building is partially open to the ninety-eight-degree heat outdoors. I can’t see the workers’ arms from where I stand, but I know from my time with the workers’ center that they are covered in raw scratches and hardened scars from thousands of birds’ futile attempts at self-defense. Similarly, their lungs are filling with dander , as they often remove their face masks to get enough oxygen in the summer heat and humidity. There’s a large ventilation fan sucking hot air out of the room, similar to the one that caught a Guatemalan worker’s smock and sucked him in several months ago at a nearby plant. By instinct, he pulled back with all his might, and his thumb and forefinger were nearly completely severed 122 a b o n e t o p i c k from his hand. I’ve been translating for him at doctor and physical therapy appointments ever since, as part of my collaboration with the workers’ center. Live hang is the most difficult and undesirable job in chicken processing, but those who elect to work here earn near the top of the pay scale for…

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