PATRICK DIXON is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, the managing editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, and a founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. He graduated from Georgetown University with a doctoral degree in history in 2015. Dixon is originally from Dorset in the United Kingdom. His interest in the themes represented in this book is in part the product of his own experiences growing up in a rural community and working in a wide variety of hourly jobs, including in the restaurant and leisure sectors.

Although there has been a fair amount written about the poultry industry and the rise of chicken in the American diet, most focuses on the last quarter century, or more or less from the 1990s onward—particularly when immigrant workers became so important to the industry. To the extent that an earlier history of the poultry industry has been written it has either come from industry leaders themselves or painted in overly broad strokes. Nuggets of Gold fills that void in a big way—telling us how the industry developed after WWII, the cultural-political-economic factors shaping shifts in consumption/diet, and earlier labor history that has largely been ignored.

PATRICK DIXON is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, the managing editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, and a founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. He graduated from Georgetown University with a doctoral degree in history in 2015. Dixon is originally from Dorset in the United Kingdom. His interest in the themes represented in this book is in part the product of his own experiences growing up in a rural community and working in a wide variety of hourly jobs, including in the restaurant and leisure sectors.

Although there has been a fair amount written about the poultry industry and the rise of chicken in the American diet, most focuses on the last quarter century, or more or less from the 1990s onward—particularly when immigrant workers became so important to the industry. To the extent that an earlier history of the poultry industry has been written it has either come from industry leaders themselves or painted in overly broad strokes. Nuggets of Gold fills that void in a big way—telling us how the industry developed after WWII, the cultural-political-economic factors shaping shifts in consumption/diet, and earlier labor history that has largely been ignored.

PATRICK DIXON is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, the managing editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, and a founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. He graduated from Georgetown University with a doctoral degree in history in 2015. Dixon is originally from Dorset in the United Kingdom. His interest in the themes represented in this book is in part the product of his own experiences growing up in a rural community and working in a wide variety of hourly jobs, including in the restaurant and leisure sectors.

Although there has been a fair amount written about the poultry industry and the rise of chicken in the American diet, most focuses on the last quarter century, or more or less from the 1990s onward—particularly when immigrant workers became so important to the industry. To the extent that an earlier history of the poultry industry has been written it has either come from industry leaders themselves or painted in overly broad strokes. Nuggets of Gold fills that void in a big way—telling us how the industry developed after WWII, the cultural-political-economic factors shaping shifts in consumption/diet, and earlier labor history that has largely been ignored.