Mississippi Chicken (2007)

Mississippi Chicken plot

Poultry processing is one of the toughest, dirtiest and most dangerous occupations in the United States, and in the Deep South, employers have long struggled to find workers willing to work long hours in the bloody processing plants for extremely low pay. because the average wage of a poultry processor is less than $18,000 a year. However, in the 1990s, the owners discovered a new source of new and reliable workers, namely Hispanic immigrants, many of whom are illiterate and unable even to speak any English. They are willing to work long hours for very low pay and are often not even able to complain to the competent authorities about unsafe or unfair working conditions. While many of these workers already had mixed feelings about their jobs, their problems are compounded by the long-standing racial tensions in the state of Mississippi, where whites and blacks have always lived at odds. And so the Hispanics find little support from either side, especially if the local economy ends up in a recession. So film maker John Fiege traveled to Mississippi to follow the lives of the Hispanic immigrants working in the poultry industry.

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