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The Fish Factory: Work and Meaning for Black and White Fisherman of the American Menhaden Industry

The Fish Factory: Work and Meaning for Black and White Fisherman of the American Menhaden Industry

Garrity, Barbara Jean

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ISBN10: 1572333383
ISBN13: 9781572333383
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Jan 15 2005
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Focusing on the menhaden fishermen of the southern coastal regions, The Fish Factory is an engaging and insightful exploration of what work means to different social groups employed within the same industry.

Since the nineteenth century, the menhaden industry in the South has been traditionally split between black crews and white captains. Using life histories, historical research, and anthropological fieldwork in Reedville, Virginia, and Beaufort, North Carolina, Barbara Garrity-Blake examines the relationship between these two groups and how the members of each have defined themselves in terms of their work. The author finds that for the captains and other white officers of the menhaden vessels--men born and bred for a life on the water--work is a key source of identity. Black crewmen, however, have insisted on a separation between work and self; they view their work primarily as a means of support rather than an end in itself.

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