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Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 (Working Class in American History)

paperback – August 1, 1997
by Halpern, Rick
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ISBN-13: 9780252066337 ISBN-10: 0252066332
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Binding
paperback
Published
August 1, 1997
Weight
1.2 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×2.50×15.20 cm

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Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 (Working Class in American History) by Halpern, Rick. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780252066337.

Rick Halpern examines the links between race relations and unionization in Chicagos meatpacking industry. Drawing on oral histories and archival materials, Halpern explores the experiences of and relationship between black and white workers in a fifty-year period that included labor actions during World War I, Armours violent reaction to union drives in the late 1930s, and organizations like the Stockyards Labor Council and the United Packinghouse Workers of America.