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Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 (Working Class in American History) [Paperback]

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Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (January 18, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252061365
ISBN-13: 978-0252061363
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
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casual labor system, modern packinghouse, common labor rate, butcher workman, immigrant packinghouse workers, butcher workmen, packinghouse employment, packinghouse laborers, cattle butchers, packinghouse strike, sausage department, skilled butchers, boarding system, meat trust, casual labor market, mixed ethnically, large packers, government arbitration, older immigrant groups, knife men, work rationalization, killing gangs, stockyards district, packing centers, company unionism

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New York, United States, University of Chicago, World War, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Tribune, Immigration Commission, Ashland Avenue, Labor Conditions, Stockyards Labor Council, Chicago Commission, Chicago Federation of Labor, New Majority, National Provisioner, Union Stockyards, Big Five, Final Report, Hyde Park, David Brody, Urban League, Department of Labor, Knights of Labor, Swift Arrow, Alma Herbst, Chicago's South Side

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American Labor on 7 pages
Main Currents in American Hist by Gabriel Kolko on 6 pages
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Negro in Chicago: Cb: A study of race relations and a race riot (1922) (American Negro) by Chicago Commission on Race Relations on 5 pages
History of Labor in the United States by John R. Commons on 5 pages

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