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...

Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54

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Margaret Bourke White and the dawn of apartheid

By Alexander C. Lichtenstein

American exceptionalism?

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In this collection of essays, leading US and European historians utilise a comparative approach in an attempt to tease out the particular constellation of factors affecting working class formation...

American Exceptionalism

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In this collection of essays, leading US and European historians utilise a comparative approach in an attempt to tease out the particular constellation of factors affecting working class formation...

Slavery and emancipation

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Slavery and Emancipation P

By Rick Halpern

Oral History Series Meatpackers

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,...

Empire and Others

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xii, 400 p. ; 24 cm

Meatpackers

By Rick Halpern