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Down On the Killing Floor:

Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54
  • ISBN-13: 9780252066337
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Rick Halpern
  • Price: AUD $58.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1997
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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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.''An ideal case study to analyze one of the central problems in American labor history--the relation ship between racial identity and working class formation and organization.'' -- James R. Barrett, author of Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922''Meticulously researched, grounded firmly in extensive oral history and archival sources, and carefully argued, Down on the Killing Floor will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in race and labor.'' -- Eric Arnesen, author of Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class and Politics, 1863-1923A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz
''An ideal case study to analyze one of the central problems in American labor history -- the relationship between racial identity and working class formation and organization.'' -- James R. Barrett, author of Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers
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