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Paperback Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 Book

ISBN: 0252061365

ISBN13: 9780252061363

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...

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