Showing Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 by Rick Halpern
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.
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