Negro and White, Unite and Fight! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negro and White, Unite and Fight! write by Roger Horowitz. This book was released on 1997. Negro and White, Unite and Fight! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pathbreaking study traces the rise--and subsequent fall--of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA). Roger Horowitz emphasizes local leaders and meatpacking workers in Chicago, Kansas City, Sioux City, and Austin, Minnesota, and closely examines the unionizing of the workplace and the prominent role of black workers and women in UPWA. In clear, anecdotal style, Horowitz shows how three major firms in U.S. meat production and distribution became dominant by virtually eliminating union power. The union's decline, he argues, reflected massive pressure by capital for lower labor costs and greater control over the work process. In the end, the victorious firms were those that had been most successful at increasing the rate of exploitation of their workers, who now labor in conditions as bad as those of a century ago. "The definitive study of unionism in the meatpacking industry for the period since the 1920's." -- James R. Barrett, author of Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz Supported by the Illinois Labor History Society
Negro and White, Unite and Fight!
Negro and White, Unite and Fight! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negro and White, Unite and Fight! write by Roger Horowitz. This book was released on 1997. Negro and White, Unite and Fight! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
"Black and White Unite and Fight"
"Black and White Unite and Fight" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Black and White Unite and Fight" write by Eric Brian Halpern. This book was released on 1989. "Black and White Unite and Fight" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
"Black and White Unite and Fight"
"Black and White Unite and Fight" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Black and White Unite and Fight" write by Eric Brian Halpern. This book was released on 1989. "Black and White Unite and Fight" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Meatpackers
Meatpackers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meatpackers write by Rick Halpern. This book was released on 1999-03. Meatpackers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Here is a piece of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there were a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers-it reveals an epoch in which trade unions fought and won whatever rights working people possess today. With these rights constantly imperiled, this book is mandatory reading." --Studs Terkel "The stories are dramatically and richly told, and they offer insights no scholarly study can quite adequately provide." --Peter Rachleff, Journal of American History Available for the first time in paperback, Meatpackers provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest-mostly African-American-talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines. They tell of their fight between the 1930s and 1960s for economic advancement and racial equality. In cities like Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Fort Worth, and Waterloo, Iowa, meatpackers built a union that would defend their interests as workers-and fight for their civil rights.
