Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 / Rick Halpern.
1997
HD8039.P152 U538 1997 (Mapit)
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Title
Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 / Rick Halpern.
Author
Halpern, Rick.
ISBN
9780252066337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252066332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252023378 (alk. paper)
0252023374 (alk. paper)
0252066332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252023378 (alk. paper)
0252023374 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 309 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HD8039.P152 U538 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.88/1649/00977311
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-300) and index.
Series
Working class in American history
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Table of 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.
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.