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Unionizing the jungles : labor and community in the twentieth-century meatpacking industry /
The rise and decline of industrial unionism in the packinghouse industry is a unique story that casts into bold relief the conflicts between labor and capital and the tensions based on race and gender in a perpetually changing workforce. The essayists in Unionizing the Jungles discuss the structural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City, IA :
University of Iowa Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : unionizing the jungles, past and present / Shelton Stromquist & Marvin Bergman
- The Swift difference : workers, managers, militants, and welfare capitalism in Chicago's stockyards, 1917-1942 / Paul Street
- Organizing "wall-to-wall" : the Independent Union of All Workers, 1933-1937 / Peter Rachleff
- Race and radicalism in the Chicago stockyards : the rise of the Chicago Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee / Rick Halpern
- "This community of our union" : shopfloor power and social unionism in the postwar UPWA / Roger Horowitz
- The limits of social democratic unionism in midwestern meatpacking communities : patterns of internal strife, 1948-1955 / Wilson J. Warren
- "The only hope we had" : United Packinghouse Workers Local 46 and the struggle for racial equality in Waterloo, Iowa, 1948-1960 / Bruce Fehn
- Challenges to gender inequality in the United Packinghouse Workers of America, 1965-1974 / Dennis A. Deslippe
- Reorganizing inequity : gender and structural transformation in Iowa meatpacking / Deborah Fink
- Storm Lake, Iowa, and the meatpacking revolution : historical and ethnographic perspectives on a community in transition / Mark A. Grey.