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Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 / Rick Halpern.

By: Series: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.Description: xiii, 309 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0252023374 (alk. paper)
  • 0252066332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.88/1649/00977311 21
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.P152 U538 1997
Contents:
"Hog butcher for the world" : Chicago's meatpacking industry -- The Stockyards Labor Council -- Chicago's packinghouse workers in the 1920s -- "Negro and white, unite and fight" : the rise of the Chicago P.W.O.C. -- Organizing the stockyards, 1937-1940 -- Chicago's packinghouse workers during World War II -- The path not taken : the formation of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD8039 .P152 U538 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000561372

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-300) and index.

"Hog butcher for the world" : Chicago's meatpacking industry -- The Stockyards Labor Council -- Chicago's packinghouse workers in the 1920s -- "Negro and white, unite and fight" : the rise of the Chicago P.W.O.C. -- Organizing the stockyards, 1937-1940 -- Chicago's packinghouse workers during World War II -- The path not taken : the formation of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.

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