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Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54
- Title
- Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 / Rick Halpern.
- Author
- Halpern, Rick.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 309 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The working class in American history
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-300) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- IEC 97-13605
- ISBN
- 0252023374 (alk. paper)
- 0252066332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96051264
- OCLC
- 36126772
- Author
- Halpern, Rick.
- Title
- Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 / Rick Halpern.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
- Series
- The working class in American history
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-300) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IEC 97-13605