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Working Class in American History Ser.: Negro and White, Unite and Fight! : A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90 by Roger Horowitz (1997, Trade Paperback)

This pathbreaking study traces the rise--and subsequent fall--of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA). Roger Horowitz looks at local leaders and meatpacking workers in Chicago, Kansas City, Sioux City, and Austin, Minnesota, closely examining the unionizing of the workplace and the prominent role of black workers and women in UPWA. 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.

Author
Roger Horowitz
Publication Name
Negro and White, Unite and Fight! : a Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Series
Working Class in American History Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
408 Pages

Lc Classification Number
Hd6515.P152u554 1997
Reviews
"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
Copyright Date
1997
Topic
General, Labor
Lccn
96-035703
Dewey Decimal
331.88/1649/00973
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics

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