The Hamlet Fire

by Bryant Simon

Marshall, Joseph

  Martin, James

  Mask, Alan, Sr.

  Massey, Douglas: American Apartheid

  Matthews, Lee

  Mazzocchi, Tony

  McBride, H. Dennis

  McClain, Donald V.

  McDonald, D.L.

  McDonald’s; chicken nuggets

  McDougald, Monica

  McEachern, Maceo

  McEachern Forest

  McEachern’s Hotel

  McGirt, Burnell

  McGovern, George

  McKenna, Maryn

  McLibel case

  McMillan, Tracie

  McRae, Alberta

  Mello-Buttercup Ice Cream; inspections

  memorial. See ruins and fire memorial

  Mercer, Jane

  microwave ovens

  Miller, Harold

  minimum wage. See wages: minimum

  Misery Index

  Mississippi

  Mrs. Kinser’s Home Style Foods

  Moates, Mildred Lassiter

  Moates, Olin D.

  moonshining

  Moore, Terry

  Moosic, Pennsylvania

  Moran, Jim

  Moree, Frankie

  Morris, Michael Allen

  Morris, William

  Moss, Jessie Lee

  Moss, Michael

  mothers, single. See single mothers

  murder

  NAACP

  Nader, Ralph

  Nestle, Marion

  New Deal; Triangle Shirtwaist fire and

  Newton, Josh

  Nicholson, Kate

  Niemeyer, J.C.

  Niland, Ron

  Nixon, Richard

  Nolan, Gladys Faye

  North Carolina Dept. of Economic and Community Development

  North Carolina Dept. of Insurance

  North Carolina Dept. of Labor; lawsuit against; Occupational Safety and Health Division

  North Carolina Dept. of Public Safety. State Bureau of Investigation

  North Carolina General Assembly

  North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project

  North Carolina Supreme Court

  Northside Fire Department

  North Yard

  Oates, Thomas

  obesity; economic aspects

  Occupational Safety and Health Act

  Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

  occupational injuries. See workplace injuries

  Odom, Felicia

  Omo-Osagie, Solomon Iyobosa, II

  Onion McNuggets

  Oschner, Alton

  OSHA. See Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

  OSHA, North Carolina. See North Carolina Dept. of Labor: Occupational Safety and Health Division

  overtime

  overweight. See obesity

  PATCO strike. See air traffic controllers’ strike

  Pate, Danny

  Patrick, O’Neal

  pay: of contract chicken farmers. See also salaries; wages

  Payne, Harry

  peach picking

  Pennsylvania. See also Moosic, Pennsylvania

  Perdue Farms; Bill Clinton and; feed additives; OSHA inquiry

  Perlstein, Rick

  permits, building. See building permits

  Phillips-Fein, Kim

  A Place at the Table

  plea bargains

  police; African Americans and

  Pollan, Michael

  pollution

  pork

  post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  potpies

  poultry houses

  poultry industry; China; contracts and contracting; processors; wages. See also chicken industry

  poultry science

  Pouncey, Dolores Gail

  Pouncey, Mary

  poverty statistics

  Primus-Darien, Mary Ann

  prison and prisons; prison construction; Roes

  processed foods; prices. See also addictive nature of processed foods; further-processed chicken

  production line workers, women. See “line ladies”

  production statistics. See chicken production statistics

  Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association strike. See air traffic controllers’ strike

  PTSD. See post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  Quick, Bobby

  Quick, Garry

  Quick, Georgia

  Quick, Martin

  Quick, Martina

  Quick, Mary Alice

  Quick, Mike

  Quick, Terrell

  race relations; in fire response; in memorial delay. See also segregation

  race riot of 1975, Hamlet

  racial demographics

  railroads; unemployment, unions

  rancid chicken

  Ratliff, Cynthia

  Reagan, Ronald

  “reckless misconduct” lawsuit

  Reddick, Cleo

  Reddick, Johnny

  Regenstein, Joe

  repetitive motion injuries. See also carpal tunnel syndrome

  restaurant chains. See chain restaurants

  retailers; poultry

  “revenge fantasies”

  Rich, Donald Brice

  Richmond Yarns

  right-to-work laws

  Riley, Steve

  riots of 1975. See race riots of 1975

  Roberts, Courtney

  Rockingham, North Carolina

  Rockingham Fire Department

  Rodgers, Daniel

  Roe, Brad; charges dropped; city water supply and; civil suit charges; culpability; Emmett Roe and; employee relations; indictment; inspectors and; post-fire life; response to fire; USDA and; victims’ feelings toward

  Roe, Emmett; bankruptcy; city relations; civil suit charges; contempt for inspectors; contempt for law; culpability; debt; employee opinions of; employee relations; expansion beyond Hamlet; Hamlet plant startup; indictment; lawyer; media investigation of; Moosic shutdown; plea bargain; purchase of Mello-Buttercup factory; response to fire; response to post-fire fine; sentence; victims’ feelings toward

  Roe, Emmett, Jr.

  Roe, Joan Stratton

  Roe, Kelly

  roof replacement

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Ross, Eugene

  Roth, Susan

  ruins and fire memorial

  rumors

  salaries: of BeA plant manager

  salmonella

  salt

  sauce, dipping. See dipping sauce

  Savar building collapse

  Sawyer, Bill

  Schatzker, Mark

  schools; dropouts; food; home economics

  Schultz, Mark

  science and scientists. See food science and scientists

  Scott, Rhonda

  Scranton, Pennsylvania

  scratch cooking. See cooking from scratch

  Seaboard Air Line Railroad

  segregation

  Sellers, Ruby

  Serrin, William

  Shanker, Albert

  Shell, Ellen Ruppel: Cheap

  Sheriff Goodman. See Goodman, Raymond

  Shoney’s

  Shotwell, Betty

  “shrinkage.” See employee theft

  Shulman, Bruce

  Silver, Ken

  Simon, Philip J.

  single mothers; food choices

  60 Minutes

  slaughterhouses; China fire

  Smith, Al

  Smith, James

  Smith, Lula

  smoking

  soft drinks

  southern boosterism. See boosterism

  soybeans

  sports

  sprinkler systems

  stagflation

  State Bureau of Investigation. See North Carolina Dept. of Public Safety. State Bureau of Investigation

  Steele, Cordelia

  Stricklin, Jimmy

  Striffler, Steve

  strikes
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  Stubbs, Franklin

  subsidies

  sugar

  Sumpter, Glenn

  supermarket chains

  Supreme Court. See North Carolina Supreme Court; U.S. Supreme Court

  Swanson’s frozen foods

  tainted meat. See contamination: of meat

  taxes; Imperial nonpayment; state

  textile industry; unemployment. See also garment industry

  theft by employees. See employee theft

  Thomas, Barbara

  Thomas, Richard

  Thompson, Jack

  tobacco

  tractor-trailers: exit-door-blocking; street-blocking

  trauma. See post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  Triangle Research Institute

  Triangle Shirtwaist fire, New York City

  Troy, New York

  trucking industry

  Tyson Foods

  unemployment; stagflation and

  Unemployment Insurance (government program)

  unions; chicken industry; Clark Equipment and; Hunt and; membership figures; OSHA and; railroads; Reagan and; Schultz and

  United Steelworkers of America

  United Way

  U.S. Chamber of Commerce

  U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA); inspectors and inspection

  U.S. Dept. of Justice

  U.S. Dept. of Labor. See also Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

  U.S. Fire Insurance Company

  U.S. Supreme Court

  Vance, J.D.

  Vaughn-Lloyd, Ned

  vending machines

  Vickery, Stephen

  Von Drehle, David: Triangle

  wages; African Americans; minimum; North Carolina; railroads; shrinking; unionized

  Wagner Act

  Wall, Evelyn

  Wall, Mary Lillian

  Walmart

  Wang, Gene-Jack

  Ward, Jesmyn

  waste disposal and treatment

  water supply

  Watt, James

  Webb, Jeff

  welfare

  wells

  whistle-blowers

  White, Calvin

  White, Teresa

  White’s Poultry

  Whitfield, George

  Wicker, Tom

  Wilkins, Rose Lynette

  Williams, Conester

  Williams, Paige

  Williams, Perry

  Wilson, North Carolina

  wine

  The Wire (television series)

  Wisconsin

  Wolfe, James

  women-headed families. See also single mothers

  women production line workers. See “line ladies”

  women’s workforce entrance

  Woncik, Edward

  worker’s compensation insurance

  workplace health and safety; D.A.’s opinion; Reagan and; violations. See also Occupational Safety and Health Act; Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

  workplace injuries; lost workdays. See also repetitive motion injuries

  World War I

  World War II

  Zimmerman, Annette; breakfast; husband of; view of Emmett Roe; view of memorial delay; workplace injury

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Bryant Simon is a professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America and Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks. His work and commentary have been featured in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and numerous other outlets. He lives in Philadelphia.

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