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

by James R. Barrett

Book Overview

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"