Rick Halpern Books
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 int...
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By Horowitz, Rick Halpern
The hope of securing gainful employment in America's meatpacking industry fired the dreams and imaginations of southern blacks seeking to escape the limits imposed by rural poverty, sharecropping,...
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