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

By Rick Halpern

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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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Slavery and Emancipation P
Slavery and Emancipation P

By Rick Halpern

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Oral History Series Meatpackers
Oral History Series Meatpackers

By Horowitz, Rick Halpern

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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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Meatpackers
Meatpackers

By Rick Halpern

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