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Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54
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- Creator
- Rick Halpern
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780252023378, 0252023374, 9780252066337, 0252066332
- OCLC
- ocm36126772
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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