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Down on the killing floor

Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54

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Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
309

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Subjects
Race relations, United Packinghouse Workers of America, Packing-house workers, History, African American packing-house workers, Labor unions, Packing-houses, United packinghouse workers of america, African americans, illinois, chicago, Chicago (ill.), social conditions
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Chicago, Chicago (Ill.), Illinois

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Down on the killing floor: Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54
1997, University of Illinois Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-300) and index.

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Series
The working class in American history

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
331.88/1649/00977311
Library of Congress
HD8039.P152 U538 1997, HD8039.P152U538 1997, HD 8039 .P152 U538 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 309 p. ;
Number of pages
309

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OL1010793M
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ISBN 10
0252023374, 0252066332
LCCN
96051264
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7228245
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836738
93775

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