Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922
(Part of the The Working Class in American History Series)
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Mythologized by Upton Sinclair as hopeless, Chicago's packinghouse workers were in fact active agents in the early twentieth century transformation that swept urban industrial America. James R. Barrett's award-winning study explores how the lives and neighborhoods of packinghouse workers convey the experience of mass production work, the quality of working class life, the process of class formation and fragmentation, the effects of unionization, and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252061365
ISBN13:9780252061363
Release Date:January 2002
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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