Negro and White, Unite and Fight! A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90

Name: Negro and White, Unite and Fight! A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90
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ISBN: 9780252066214

ISBN-10: 0252066219

ISBN-13: 9780252066214

Edition: 1997

Authors: Roger Horowitz

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This pathbreaking study traces the rise--and subsequent fall--of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA). Roger Horowitz emphasizes local leaders and meatpacking workers in Chicago, Kansas City, Sioux City, and Austin, Minnesota, and closely examines the unionizing of the workplace and the prominent role of black workers and women in UPWA. In clear, anecdotal style, Horowitz shows how three major firms in U.S. meat production and distribution became dominant by virtually eliminating union power. The union's decline, he argues, reflected massive pressure by capital for lower labor costs and greater control over the…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 5/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: "Only If You Stay Together": Class, Unionism, and America's Packinghouse Workers



Purveyors to a Nation: Capital and Labor in the Meatpacking Industry



"CIO, Let's Go!": The Origins of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking



"We Worked for Everything We Got": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Austin, Minnesota



"They Just Had to Deal with the Union": Organizing in the Chicago Stockyards



"Without a Union, We're All Lost": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Kansas City



"We Had to Have Somebody Behind Us": The Origins of Packinghouse Unionism in Sioux City, Iowa



"So That Your Children Will Not Have to Slave as We Have": The Struggle for an International Union



"All That Capitalism Would Allow": The Era of the United Packinghouse Workers of America



"We Are Not Asking for Favors": World War II and the Consolidation of a Democratic UPWA



"Something New Is Added": Surviving Labor's Cold War, 1946-50



"This Community of Our Union": Shop-floor Power and Social Unionism in the Postwar UPWA



The Return to the "Jungle"



"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


Notes


Primary Sources Consulted


Index