Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality

by Roger Horowitz and Rick Halpern

Book Overview

"Here is a piece of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there were a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers-it reveals an epoch in which trade unions fought and won whatever rights working people possess today. With these rights constantly imperiled, this book is mandatory reading."
--Studs Terkel
"The stories are dramatically and richly told, and they offer insights no scholarly study can quite adequately provide."
--Peter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158367005X
• ISBN13: 9781583670057
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"