Black women in Chicago packinghouse departments

CTL-E-1031 · Institution · other · c. 1916-1950s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Black women employed in the casings, sausage, bacon-packaging, and offal departments of Chicago packing plants — chilled, wet, hazardous departments with piece-rate pay.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-015; source research type(s): None.

Sources

'The Chicago stockyards on the eve of the CIO (1936)' (thefreelibrary)
eScholarship/cdlib dissertation PDF (mirror; study of Black women workers)

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