Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality

Meatpackers provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest-mostly African-American-talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines. They tell of their fight between the 1930s and 1960s for economic advancement and racial equality. In cities like Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Fort Worth, and Waterloo, Iowa, meatpackers built a union that would defend their interests as workers-and their civil rights.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Halpern, Rick
Published: 03/01/1999
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 9781583670057
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.01w x 0.51d