Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-century Meatpacking Industry (Conference Papers) - Hardcover

Stromquist, Shelton; Bergman, Marvin

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ISBN 10: 0877455899 ISBN 13: 9780877455899

Verlag: University of Iowa Press, 1997

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The rise and decline of industrial unionism in the packinghouse industry is a unique story that casts into bold relief the conflicts between labor and capital and the tensions based on race and gender in a perpetually changing workforce. The essayists in Unionizing the Jungles discuss the structurally distinctive features of the packinghouse industry - such as the fact that violence and extreme antiunionism were central elements of its culture - the primary actors in the union-building process, the roots of the distinctive interracialism of the United Packinghouse Workers of America and the explosion of industrial unionism in the 1930s, and the community-based militant unionism of the Independent Union of All Workers. Central themes throughout their essays include the role of African American workers, the constant battle for racial equality, and the eruption of gender conflict in the 1950s. Structural and technological changes in the corporate economy, the increased mobility of capital, and a more hostile political economy all contributed to the difficulties the labor movement faced in the 1980s and beyond. Focusing on the workplace and the community as arenas of conflict and accommodation, the new labor historians in these vigorous essays consider the historical and contemporary problems posed by the development of the packinghouse industry and its unions and reflect on the implications of this dramatic history for the larger story of the changing relations between labor and capital in mass production industry.

Biografía del autor:

Shelton Stromquist is a professor of history at the University of Iowa and the author of Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism, and other books.
Marvin Bergman received his Ph.D. in American religious history from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has edited the "Annals of Iowa "for the State Historical Society of Iowa since 1987. With Shelton Stromquist he is the coeditor of "Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry" (Iowa, 1997).

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• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0877455899
• ISBN 13: 9780877455899
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Stromquist Shelton, Bergman Marvin