On the one hand, I think that the author is attempting to put our interest or focus on the working/employment conditions as well as the well-being of the wageworkers of a meatpacking industry in rural Iowa in the 1980’s and how the “restructuring of US manufacturing” (Fink, intro p. 1) and closures of some plants has affected the lives of those workers financially and structurally. Accordingly, after reading Fink’s introduction, I believe she wanted to deliver a message of social change especially related to gender and racial inequality and bias in the workforce. Moreover, Fink also stated that her goals in writing this book were to “put the 1980’s trauma into historical context” as well as give emphasis to the “working class as an important
