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Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 /

Halpern, Rick.

Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 / Rick Halpern. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997. - xiii, 309 p. ; 24 cm. - Working class in American history .

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

"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.

ISBN: 0252023374 (alk. paper) 0252066332 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 96051264

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United Packinghouse Workers of America--History.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Afro-American packing-house workers--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Trade-unions--Packing-house workers--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Packing-houses--History.--Illinois--Chicago

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.

LC Class. No.: HD8039.P152 / U538 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 331.88/1649/00977311