1921: Strike In A Packing House (cont)

For further reading:

Cohen, Lizabeth., Making a New Deal:  Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.  Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press, 1990.  This work documents the difficulties and successes of industrial workers (immigrants and racial minorities) to form a union in Chicago before and leading up to the New Deal. It also describes how mass culture permeated the lives of these workers and forged cohesive bonds across race and ethnic lines.