Review of \u3ci\u3eUnionizing the1ungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry\u3c/i\u3e Edited by Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Bergman

Hacking through meatpacking\u27s mass production jungle, historians Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Bergman gather nine essays addressing twentieth-century Midwestern unionization and its impact on industrial and social relations within and beyond factory walls. The work details the historical struggles inherent to the meatpacking labor movement. Racial, gender, and ideological differences, compounded by guarantees that all workers benefit equally from union membership, have been the most serious traditional obstacles to uniting employees. Wilson Warren\u27s essay, for instance, argues that whites in the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) declined initiating anti-discrimination programs after World War II intentionally to limit African American advancement