a ISBN 0-252-02320X (cloth : acid-free paper-)

a ISBN 0-252-066219 (pbk. : acid-free paper-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number HD6515.P152

b Item number U554 1997

a Dewey Classification 331.88/1649/00973

a Personal name Horowitz Roger

a Title "Negro and white, unite and fight!" :

b Remainder of title a social history of industrial unionism in meatpacking, 1930-90 /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Roger Horowitz.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Urbana :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of Illinois Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c1997.

a Extent xvi, 373 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a Title The working class in American history

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-356) and index.

a Formatted contents note Introduction: "Only If You Stay Together": Class, Unionism, and America's Packinghouse Workers. 1. Purveyors to a Nation: Capital and Labor in the Meatpacking Industry -- Pt. 1. "CIO, Let's Go!": The Origins of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking. 2. "We Worked for Everything We Got": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Austin, Minnesota. 3. "They Just Had to Deal with the Union": Organizing in the Chicago Stockyards. 4. "Without a Union, We're All Lost": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Kansas City. 5. "We Had to Have Somebody Behind Us": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Sioux City, Iowa. 6. "So That Your Children Will Not Have to Slave as We Have": The Struggle for an International Union -- Pt. 2. "All That Capitalism Would Allow": The Era of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. 7. "We Are Not Asking for Favors": World War II and the Consolidation of a Democratic UPWA. 8. "Something New Is Added": Surviving Labor's Cold War, 1946-50. 9. "This Community of Our Union": Shop-floor Power and Social Unionism in the Postwar UPWA -- Pt. 3. The Return to the "Jungle" 10. "My Scars Are Many": The Decline of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1955-90 -- Conclusion: "For Your Future and Mine": Workers, Unions, and the Meatpacking Industry of the Twenty-first Century.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Packinghouse workers