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Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54

By Rick Halpern

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0252066332, 9780252066337
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9878619 bytes)
Series
Working Class in American History
Edition
1
Pages
336\326
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2023-07-31 20:24:09

Description

Rick Halpern examines the links between race relations and unionization in Chicago's meatpacking industry. Drawing on oral histories and archival materials, Halpern explores the experiences of and relationship between black and white workers in a fifty-year period that included labor actions during World War I, Armour's violent reaction to union drives in the late 1930s, and organizations like the Stockyards Labor Council and the United Packinghouse Workers of America.

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