Several levels of sociocultural integration have been transcended. Applied efforts at parallel interventions have shifted from the bounded and orderly little community through the teeming chaos of the developing city to the boundless and amorphous world of the postnational map and the human ethnoscape which occupies it. We still affirm the continuing relevance today of elements of the work we have performed at each of these levels. But we will also argue that contemporary applied anthropology must refocus its concepts and methods on researach and experiments that will guide the policy agendas and the resulting ameliorative interventions of both national and international agencies. The task before us is immense.
Time is short.
Resources are limited. Turnover rates are particularly high in meatpacking. Difficult and dangerous working conditions led to injuries, worker exhaustion, and turnover. Managers refused to recognize that the lack of meaningful work in the plant also contributed to workers' departure. Although government policies over the last several decades have addressed issues of nutrition for the elderly, elders still face problems of undernutrition and food insecurity.