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Book Talk: Life and Death of the American Worker by Alice Driver: Food Literacy for All
Talk description:
Alice Driver is a James Beard Award-winning investigative journalist from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company (One Signal Publishers, 2024). In 2024, the book won the Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. In 2025, the book made the shortlist for the Brooklyn Library Prize alongside books by Pulitzer Prize-winner Mosab Abu Toha and Windham Campbell Prize-winner Alexis Pauline Gumbs. In 2025, Driver attended The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Residency, whose former residents include Maya Angelou and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In her work and writing, Driver focuses on the American food system, immigration, and unjust labor practices.
Speaker biography:
In the spirit of investigative journalism by Patrick Radden Keefe, Matthew Desmond and Beth Macy, Alice Driver will discuss the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America, Tyson Foods. Driver will pull back the curtain, taking you into the secretive world of meat and poultry processing facilities. She will share stories from workers and even the industrial recipe for chicken nuggets.
Book Talk Facilitator:
Dr. Allan Hruska (Lecturer in Sustainability and Development at the University of Michigan School for Environment & Sustainability)
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