Packinghouse daughter : a memoir / Cheri Register.
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TextPublication details: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2000.Description: 280 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0873513916 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0873513924 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780873513913 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780873513920 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Register, Cheri, 1945- -- Childhood and youth
- Packing-houses -- Minnesota -- Albert Lea -- History -- 20th century
- Strikes and lockouts -- Minnesota -- Albert Lea -- History -- 20th century
- Working class -- Minnesota -- Albert Lea -- Biography
- Albert Lea (Minn.) -- Biography
- Albert Lea (Minn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The violence that erupted when the company "replaced" its union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability, and attracted national attention when the governor of Minnesota called in the National Guard, declared martial law, and closed the plant.
Register skillfully interweaves her own memories, historical research, and first-person interviews of participants on both sides of the strike into a narrative that is thoughtful and impassioned about the value of blue-collar work and the dignity of those who do it. Packinghouse Daughter also testifies to the hold that childhood experience has on personal values and notions of social class, despite the upward mobility that is the great promise of American democracy.
The Blue Workshirt -- The Setting -- The Plant -- The Field Trip -- Dad Talks about His Work -- A Nod to Vegetarians -- At the End of the Trail -- Legends and Lost Histories -- How We Became Working-Class -- A Dream of Joe Hill -- Hearsay -- Unfair -- 1959 -- On Strike -- Fellow Adversaries -- The Breaking Point -- English Lessons -- Under Siege -- "Dear Governor Freeman" -- Back to Work -- Faith in the Face of Reality -- Legacy -- How to Make History -- My Vengeance on the Wienie Moguls -- Mellowing.