Good job, bad job: occupational perceptions among Latino poultry workers

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• Personal Author:
  Arcury TA ; Mora DC ; Quandt SA
• Description:
  Objectives: Immigrant workers frequently take jobs that are physically demanding, provide low wages, and result in injuries (e.g., poultry production and processing). Through a qualitative approach, this paper elicits poultry workers' evaluations of their jobs and set them in the larger context of their lives. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 65 poultry workers in western North Carolina. Workers were asked to discuss job characteristics, physical and psychological impacts of their employment, and perceived health risks. Results: Immigrant workers valued the stability, benefits, upward mobility, and pay offered. They disliked the physical demands, the potential perceived effects of the job on their health, and the interactions with bosses and peers. Conclusions: Workers' willingness to endure dirty, dangerous, and demanding (3-D) conditions of poultry must be understood in the context of other employment options, structural violence, and their focus on immediate family needs that positive aspects of these jobs can fulfill. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emigration And Immigration Family Food-Processing Industry Food Handling Food Industry Occupational Health Race Factors Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Violence Workplace

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• Keywords:
  3-D Jobs Author Keywords: Job Perceptions Families Food-processing Food-processing-industry Food-processing-workers Health Surveys Immigrant Workers Injuries Job Analysis Occupational Health Physical Stress Poultry Poultry-industry Poultry-workers Poultry Workers Qualitative Analysis Racial-factors Risk-factors Sociological Factors Structural Violence Work-performance Work-practices Worker Health Work Organization Workplace Violence

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048029
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2016 Oct; 59(10):877-886
• Contact Point Address:
  Sara A.Quandt, PhD, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157
• Email:
  squandt@wakehealth.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080930
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20140929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f3c0135f03353a67948a74b1264c3b75d021e724640b592974ccc6831ea9c6c9ce11fb7a7d0c0e9dcaf20843aebe80402e059e2e73ad53d6da0b1cefc254074d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202916/cdc_202916_DS1.pdf
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