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African American workers
Armour
Author_Rick Halpern
Black workers
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Chicago
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ethnic
Great Depression
Herbert March
labor
labor movement
labor organizing
meat industry
meatpackers
oral history
organizing
packinghouse
PWOC
race
stockyards
Stockyards Labor Council
strike
Swift
unionization
unions
United Packinghouse Workers of America
women
women workers
workers
World War II
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- ISBN 9780252066337
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 1997
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Rick Halpern examines the links between race relations and unionization in Chicago's meatpacking industry. Drawing on oral histories and archival materials, Halpern explores the experiences of and relationship between black and white workers in a fifty-year period that included labor actions during World War I, Armour's violent reaction to union drives in the late 1930s, and organizations like the Stockyards Labor Council and the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Rick Halpern is a professor of history and Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the coauthor of Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality.
