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Record ID marc_records_scriblio_net/part25.dat:207579190:1533
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LEADER: 01533cam 2200301 a 4500
001 96051264
003 DLC
005 20030404132525.0
008 961211s1997 ilu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 96051264
020 $a0252023374 (alk. paper)
020 $a0252066332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us-il
050 00 $aHD8039.P152$bU538 1997
082 00 $a331.88/1649/00977311$221
100 1 $aHalpern, Rick.
245 10 $aDown on the killing floor :$bBlack and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 /$cRick Halpern.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$cc1997.
300 $axiii, 309 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 4 $aThe working class in American history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-300) and index.
505 0 $a"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.
650 0 $aAfrican American packing-house workers$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory.
650 0 $aPacking-house workers$xLabor unions$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory.
650 0 $aPacking-houses$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory.
651 0 $aChicago (Ill.)$xRace relations.
610 20 $aUnited Packinghouse Workers of America$xHistory.