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Meatpackers: An Oral History of Packinghous Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality Hardcover - 1996 - 1st Edition
by Rick Halpern
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The hope of securing gainful employment in America's meatpacking industry fired the dreams and imaginations of southern blacks seeking to escape the limits imposed by rural poverty, sharecropping, and Jim Crow segregation. Despite terrible working conditions, the packinghouse provided jobs in urban centers where other doors remained closed. Using oral history interviews drawn from the massive United Packinghouse Workers of America Oral History Project (underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities), Halpern and Horowitz trace the impact of the packinghouse on race relations, the civil rights movement, and African American communities from Chicago to Fort Worth. The interviewees speak for themselves with power, intelligence, and emotion. They reveal the importance of the packinghouse employment to midwestern black communities, and offer insights into the work experience and family relationships of African Americans. They relate the remarkable representation of interracial cooperation within a labor union - the United Packinghouse Workers of America - and the positive role this organization played in the promotion of social change, racial equality, and tolerance.
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- Title Meatpackers: An Oral History of Packinghous Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
- Author Rick Halpern
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Twayne Publishers, Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.
- Date October 18, 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780805791204 / 0805791205
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.58 x 6.42 x 0.93 in (24.33 x 16.31 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects African American packing-house workers -, African American packing-house workers -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96025096
- Dewey Decimal Code 341.690
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Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/1996, Page 627
- Library Journal, 11/15/1996, Page 73
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