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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"meatpacking"”.
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Deindustrialization and the urban landscape: race, space, and memory in Back of the Yards, 1950-1980
… almost entirely dependent on and defined by the meatpacking industry. In particular, it examines how deindustrialization, beginning in the early 1950s, affected the workers’ definitions of themselves and their community and how it contributed to the neighborhood’s efforts to both attract new …
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Detection and description of influenza a virus transmission in commercial weaned pigs in Illinois, USA
… for SARS-CoV-2 from environmental samples in meatpacking plants in the midwestern USA. The study was conducted due to absenteeism in the meatpacking workforce at the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which was caused by employee’s fears of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 at their …
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Between two fires: race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1904-1922
… Mediation Commission awarded the city’s meatpacking workers union recognition, a wage increase, and the eight-hour day. Unfortunately, progressive unionism was organized around so-called “neighborhood locals” organized by community rather than by craft. As a result, African Americans …
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How Far Is Home: A Novella and Short Stories
… on the development of the High Line in the Meatpacking District, before the railroad was turned into a public park.</p>
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Meatpacker conduct, oligopsony power, and live cattle price dynamics
… game theory is used to model behavior in the meatpacking oligopsony. Theory suggests that for collusive behavior to persist in equilibrium, the oligopsony will follow a strategy with two actions: (1) a cooperative phase where low prices are paid for cattle, and (2) a noncooperative phase where …
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Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
… such as textiles, railroad construction, and meatpacking formed the backbone of Kansas City’s industry, while migrant farm labor and small farming, especially in wheat, employed a large percentage of workers in eastern Kansas and around Kansas City. This led the IWW in Kansas City to embark on …