TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halpern,Rick
TI  - Down on the killing floor: Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-54 
SN  - 0252023374 (alk. paper)
AV  - HD8039.P152 U538 1997
U1  - 331.88/1649/00977311 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - United Packinghouse Workers of America
KW  - History
KW  - Afro-American packing-house workers
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Trade-unions
KW  - Packing-house workers
KW  - Packing-houses
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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
ER  -