Hamlet fire : a tragic story of cheap food, cheap government, and cheap lives.

For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simon, Bryant (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2432676