TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horowitz Roger
TI  - "Negro and white, unite and fight!": a social history of industrial unionism in meatpacking, 1930-90 
SN  - 025202320X (cloth : acid-free paper)
AV  - HD6515.P152  
U1  - 331.88/1649/00973 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - United Packinghouse Workers of America
KW  - History
KW  - Packinghouse workers
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-356) and index; Introduction: "Only If You Stay Together": Class, Unionism, and America's Packinghouse Workers. 1. Purveyors to a Nation: Capital and Labor in the Meatpacking Industry -- Pt. 1. "CIO, Let's Go!": The Origins of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking. 2. "We Worked for Everything We Got": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Austin, Minnesota. 3. "They Just Had to Deal with the Union": Organizing in the Chicago Stockyards. 4. "Without a Union, We're All Lost": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Kansas City. 5. "We Had to Have Somebody Behind Us": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Sioux City, Iowa. 6. "So That Your Children Will Not Have to Slave as We Have": The Struggle for an International Union -- Pt. 2. "All That Capitalism Would Allow": The Era of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. 7. "We Are Not Asking for Favors": World War II and the Consolidation of a Democratic UPWA. 8. "Something New Is Added": Surviving Labor's Cold War, 1946-50. 9. "This Community of Our Union": Shop-floor Power and Social Unionism in the Postwar UPWA -- Pt. 3. The Return to the "Jungle" 10. "My Scars Are Many": The Decline of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1955-90 -- Conclusion: "For Your Future and Mine": Workers, Unions, and the Meatpacking Industry of the Twenty-first Century
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