An investigation into racism and inequalities in the meat industry: Slaughterhouses and factory farm work.

自厄普顿·辛克莱的小说《丛林》（1985）出版以来的100多年里，可以说肉类加工几乎没有什么变化。这本影响深远的书揭露了20世纪初芝加哥屠宰场工作的恶劣条件。这些工人中有许多是移民。移民在肉类加工行业的比例仍然过高，他们面临着边缘化和歧视，工资低、工作条件差、缺乏安全保障，这只是其中的一些挑战。本研究旨在研究移民在当代农业食品系统中的牵连方式，该系统通常基于资本主义剥削工人的模式。它将仔细审查21世纪的肉类行业，检查屠宰场中存在的种族主义程度，包括制度层面和个人层面。通过与马克思主义理论的接触，它将探讨屠宰场内的不稳定性和不平等。它将更广泛地考虑个人、公司、政府和农业食品部门的作用。定性方法（半结构化访谈、焦点小组和文件分析）将提供一系列观点和镜头，以仔细审查移民、资本家、政府和倡导团体在食品加工部门的作用。该研究将通过批评农业食品部门的集约化以及暴露移民不稳定性的移民研究来扩展现有知识。

In the more than 100 years since the publication of Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle (1985), it could be argued that little has changed in meat processing. That seminal book exposed the atrocious conditions of slaughterhouse work in early 20th century Chicago. Many of those workers were migrants. Migrants continue to be over-represented in meat processing where they face marginalisation and discrimination as manifest through low pay, poor working conditions and lack of security, to name but a few challenges. This research seeks to examine the way in which migrants are implicated within contemporary agri-food systems that are typically based on a capitalist model of worker exploitation. It will scrutinise the meat industry in the 21st century, examining the degree to which racism exists within slaughterhouses, both institutionally and at an individual level. By engaging with Marxist theories it will explore precarity and inequalities within slaughterhouses. It will consider the role of individuals, companies, government and the agri-food sector more generally. A qualitative approach (semistructured interviews, focus groups, and document analysis) will provide a range of perspectives and lenses to scrutinise the role of migrants, capitalists, government and advocacy groups in the food processing sector. The research will extend existing knowledge by critiquing the intensification of agri-food sector as well as migration research exposing migrant precarity.