Down On The Killing Floor Chicago

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Black and white workers in chicago s packinghouses 1904 54 working class in american history. Chicago s packinghouse workers 1894 1922 meticulously researched grounded firmly in extensive oral history and archival sources and carefully argued down on the killing floor will be indispensable reading for everyone interested in race and labor eric arnesen author of waterfront workers of new orleans. Down on the killing floor. During world war i a poor black southerner travels north to chicago to get work in the city s slaughterhouses where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

He takes a job as a meatpacker in the city s notorious union stock yards and while custer and other black workers are initially ostracized by their white counterparts he ends up working. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for down on the killing floor. Black and white workers in chicago s packinghouses 1904 54 write a review feb 21 2008 amy cummings rated it it was amazing. It s true that many southern african americans who flooded north during the great migration found work on the blood slick killing floors of chicago meat packing slaughterhouses.

A reference to the location in the slaughterhouse where the stock was killed and then butchered hence a scene of danger difficulty bloodshed etc. The song s title refers to the active area of a slaughterhouse. He becomes prominent as a leader of fellow african americans in the union though many including his best friend view him as a sell out. Black and white workers in chicago s packinghouses 1904 54 find read and cite all the research you.

Called one of the defining classics of chicago electric blues killing floor became a blues standard with recordings by various artists. With damien leake alfre woodard dennis farina ernest rayford. Start your review of down on the killing floor. From old blues songs particularly the chicago style.

It has been acknowledged by the blues foundation hall of fame which noted its popularity among rock as well as blues musicians. The killing floor stars damien leake apocalypse now as a real life mississippi sharecropper named frank custer who heads to chicago in 1919. Killing floor is a 1964 song by american blues singer songwriter and guitarist howlin wolf. So it s understandable why even wikipedia reports that howlin wolf recorded killing floor in 1964.

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