Negro and White, Unite and Fight: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90

by Roger Horowitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066219
• ISBN13: 9780252066214
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"