Down on the killing floor : Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 / Rick Halpern.
Series: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.Description: xiii, 309 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0252023374 (alk. paper)
- 0252066332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 331.88/1649/00977311 21
- HD8039.P152 U538 1997
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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.