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

by James R. Barrett

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Working Class in American History

ISBN-10 0252061365

ISBN-13 9780252061363

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 18th, 2002

Print length 328 Pages

Weight 472 grams

Dimensions 15.30 x 22.80 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural history Labour economics Economic history

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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 the changing character of class relations. Merging history and analysis with contemporary social surveys and a computer-assisted analysis of census data, Barrett delves into a wide range of social, economic, and cultural factors that resulted in class cohesion and fragmentation.

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