Emily Kathryn Morgan is associate professor of art history at Iowa State University. She is the author of Street Life in London: Context and Commentary. She lives in Ames, Iowa.

“Given Iowa’s increasing importance as a meat industry state, especially after the collapse a half-century ago of the Chicago meatpacking industry, it deserves the attention Morgan provides in this mixture of illustrations and text. Her expertise in visual materials informs her analysis of these resources played and play in the process stretching from producer to consumer. Those interested in labor history as well as art history will find much to appreciate. . . . Reaching far back to the earliest illustrations of meat processing in past centuries, Morgan helps a reader understand how consumers have accepted a violent industrial process filled even in current times with significant issues of health and worker safety.”—Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Emily Kathryn Morgan is associate professor of art history at Iowa State University. She is the author of Street Life in London: Context and Commentary. She lives in Ames, Iowa.

“Given Iowa’s increasing importance as a meat industry state, especially after the collapse a half-century ago of the Chicago meatpacking industry, it deserves the attention Morgan provides in this mixture of illustrations and text. Her expertise in visual materials informs her analysis of these resources played and play in the process stretching from producer to consumer. Those interested in labor history as well as art history will find much to appreciate. . . . Reaching far back to the earliest illustrations of meat processing in past centuries, Morgan helps a reader understand how consumers have accepted a violent industrial process filled even in current times with significant issues of health and worker safety.”—Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Emily Kathryn Morgan is associate professor of art history at Iowa State University. She is the author of Street Life in London: Context and Commentary. She lives in Ames, Iowa.

“Given Iowa’s increasing importance as a meat industry state, especially after the collapse a half-century ago of the Chicago meatpacking industry, it deserves the attention Morgan provides in this mixture of illustrations and text. Her expertise in visual materials informs her analysis of these resources played and play in the process stretching from producer to consumer. Those interested in labor history as well as art history will find much to appreciate. . . . Reaching far back to the earliest illustrations of meat processing in past centuries, Morgan helps a reader understand how consumers have accepted a violent industrial process filled even in current times with significant issues of health and worker safety.”—Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society