| Postville U.S.A. Contributor(s): Grey, Mark (Author), Devlin, Michele (Author), Goldsmith, Aaron (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934848646 ISBN-13: 9781934848647 Publisher: GemmaMedia OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Postville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the towns experiment in multiculturalism dead. It was not native Iowans, or the newly-arrived Orthodox Jews, or the immigrant workers who made Postville fail. Postville was stopped in its tracks by a massive raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 12th 2008. 20% of the population was arrested, forcing the closure of the towns kosher meatpacking plant. The raid exposed the greed, crimes and incompetence of plant managers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General |
| Dewey: 977.733 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.06" W x 7.98" (0.52 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Iowa - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Postville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the town's experiment in multiculturalism dead. It was not native Iowans, or the newly-arrived Orthodox Jews, or the immigrant workers who made Postville fail. Postville was stopped in its tracks by a massive raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 12th 2008. 20% of the population was arrested, forcing the closure of the town's kosher meatpacking plant. The raid exposed the disastrous enforcement of immigration policy, the exploitation of Postville by activists, and disturbing questions about the packing house's operators. |