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Work and community in the jungle : Chicago's packinghouse workers, 1894-1922 / James R. Barrett.
LIBRA HD8039.P152 U53 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrett, James R., 1950-
- Series:
- Working class in American history.
- The Working class in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Packing-house workers--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Packing-house workers.
- Community organization--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Community organization.
- Quality of work life--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Quality of work life.
- Mass production--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Mass production.
- Labor unions--Illinois--Chicago--Packing-house workers--History.
- Labor unions.
- Working class--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Working class.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Licht, Walter, 1946- (donor)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 290 pages, 14 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- illustration
- Edition:
- Illini books ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1990, ©1987.
- Contents:
- 1. The meat-packing industry : monopoly capital and mass production
- 2. The packinghouse workers
- 3. The families and communities of Packingtown, 1894-1922
- 4. Unionization and Americanization, 1900-1904
- 5. Work rationalization and the struggle for control, 1900-1094
- 6. Class, race, and ethnicity, 1917-21
- 7. The packers' offensive, 1921-22.
- ISBN:
- 0252061365
- 9780252061363
- 0252013786
- 9780252013782
- OCLC:
- 20932448
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