Down on the killing floor
Subtitle: Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54
By: Rick Halpern.
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: United Packinghouse Workers of America -- History.; African American packing-house workers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Packing-house workers -- Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Packing-houses -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations.
Description: This detailed study of the relationship between race relations and unionization in Chicago's meatpacking industry draws on traditional primary and secondary materials and on an extensive set of interviews conducted in the mid-1980s that explore subjective dimensions of the workers' experience.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Hog butcher for the world" : Chicago's meatpacking industry; title: The Stockyards Labor Council; title: Chicago's packinghouse workers in the 1920s; title: "Negro and white, unite and fight" : the rise of the Chicago P.W.O.C.; title: Organizing the stockyards, 1937-1940; title: Chicago's packinghouse workers during World War II; title: The path not taken : the formation of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.