But he is, as most people who know him agree, a man with a cause - safety for packinghouse workers.

There are other signs, too, that the packinghouse has not changed dramatically.

It would take five hours to process that much fruit in a packinghouse."

It is considered an important infection of citrus fruit, especially in packinghouses.

Now, Hispanic immigrants work in packinghouses and service jobs.

During the Depression of the 1930s, however, they suffered setbacks when major packinghouses closed.

Foster turned his attention, while the packinghouse campaign was still underway, to another project: organizing steel workers.

Only at the packinghouse is human intervention required.

Old South Side packinghouses come down, and half-million-dollar houses go up.

But for the hundreds of workers who are the latest casualties of the packinghouse, too much remains the same.

By the end of 1898, two-thirds of Riverside's packinghouses were using the machines.

He said he was forced to take another job, as a dishwasher, and now, seven years later, works in a fruit packinghouse.

When the melons come into the packinghouse, they spill down a conveyor belt.

This precipitous decline mirrored the loss of packinghouse operations to the rural countryside.

There is life outside the packinghouse.

The road started as a means to quickly transport citrus to packinghouses on the mainland, then in the 1930s and 1940s became more used by tourists.

At 22, Carri Miller is worried that she may never recover from being a packinghouse worker.

Another major change that affected National City during the first half of the 20th century was the unionization of packinghouse workers.

On July 25, 1904, the packinghouse drivers asked the international Teamsters union to sanction a strike.

The white rioters lynched Willy Brown, an accused packinghouse worker.

Workers in packinghouses nation-wide went on strike.

The packinghouses fouled the environment and dumped wastes directly into the south fork of the Chicago River.

Marrianne Sudenga's leg is healed and she is back at the packinghouse on her old job.

Just over a year ago, John Morrell & Company, which operates the packinghouse, found itself in the national spotlight.

Here in Morrell's Sioux Falls packinghouse, the spotlight has brought changes.