Halpern, Rick. <br/><br/>
Down on the killing floor :  Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 / 
Rick Halpern. 
 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  c1997. 
 - xiii, 309 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Working class in American history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-300) and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0252023374 (alk. paper) 0252066332 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96051264 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United Packinghouse Workers of America--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Afro-American packing-house workers--History.--Illinois--Chicago<br/>Trade-unions--Packing-house workers--History.--Illinois--Chicago<br/>Packing-houses--History.--Illinois--Chicago
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD8039.P152  / U538 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>331.88/1649/00977311