Roger Horowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Horowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Horowitz |
| SIGNATURE | HOROWITZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hagley Museum and Library |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Union Time
A stunning moment of deja vu hit me about forty-five minutes into viewing the documentary Union Time, which charts the union organizing campaign at the Smithfield Foods hog slaughtering plant in Ta...
Pastrami on Rye
Kosher USA
Roger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher to the success of Manischewitz wine with non-Jewish consumers, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the history of modern Jewish American life as well as American foodways.
Kosher USA
Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. It recounts how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher; the contentious debates among rabbis over the incorporation of modern science into Jewish law; how Manischewitz wine became the first kosher product to win over non-Jewish consumers (principally African Americans); the techniques used by Orthodox rabbinical organi…
Food Chains
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That Was a Dirty Job!” Technology and Workplace Hazards in Meatpacking Over the Long Twentieth Century
Workplace dangers are inherent in the meatpacking industry because of the nature of tasks necessary to generate meat from animals that come in irregular sizes and to keep that product wholesome for consumers. While meatpacking injuries are both endemic and substantially more prevalent than in most American industries, their danger rests in their cumulative impact and not on dramatic accidents, as is the case in the mining and construction industr…
The Sausage Rebellion
Book Review| April 01 2008 The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890–1917 The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917. Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 267–269. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.267 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter …
Oral History
Oral History: A Century of Living has as its stated organizing principle that all interviewees are at least a hundred years old and the “moments they remember” can teach us about life in the twentieth century. Setting such a broad agenda is almost certainly impossible to fulfill in fifty-seven minutes, and the film does not. What it does do well, however, is provide remarkable insights into the personal lives of Americans in the first third of th…
Organizing the Shipyards
Journal Article Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933–1945. By David Palmer. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1998. xx, 264 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2734-7.) Get access Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1841–1842, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567695 …
His and Hers
Journal Article His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology. Ed. by Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. ix, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1803-0. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-1802-2.) Get access Ruth Schwartz Cowan Ruth Schwartz Cowan State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Work, Race, and Identity
(1999). Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers. The Oral History Review: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 23-43.
"Negro and White, Unite and Fight!" A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90
Boys and Their Toys? Masculinity, Technology, and Work
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The Great Lobster War
Negro and White, Unite and Fight
Journal Article “Negro and White, Unite and Fight!”: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking 1930–90. By Roger Horowitz. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xviii, 373 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02320-X. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-06621-9) Get access Nancy Gabin Nancy Gabin Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
Meatpackers
Meatpackers provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest-mostly African-American-talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines. They tell of their fight between the 1930s and 1960s for economic advancement and racial equality. In cities like Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Fort Worth, and Waterloo, Iowa, meatpackers built a union th…
Meatpackers
Journal Article Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packing house Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz. (Newark: Twayne, 1996. xviii, 176 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-9120-5.) Get access Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Page…
Where Men Will Not Work
“Where Men Will Not Work”: Gender, Power, Space, and the Sexual Division of Labor in America’s Meatpacking Industry, 1890-1990 ROGER HOROWITZ Tillie Olsen lived in Omaha’s stockyards district in the 1930s. In her novel, Yonnondio ofthe 1930s, she vividly portrayed work in meat packing’s predominantly female offal and casings rooms: “Yearround breathing with open mouth, learning to pant shallow to en dure the excrement reek of offal, the smother…
Aftermath
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Farm and Factory
Journal Article Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880–1990. By Daniel Nelson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. x, 258 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-32883-7.) Get access Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1036–1037, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945718 Pu…
Social Science History Association
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Oral History and the Story of America and World War II
Journal Article Oral History and the Story of America and World War II Get access Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 617–624, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082191 Published: 01 Sep…
Stalin over Wisconsin
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 623 quences that run throughout the history of cotton technology. For these enormously important stories we have to look elsewhere in the literature ofAfrican-American, agricultural, economic, and southern history. Peter H. Cousins Mr. Cousins is curator of agriculture and industry at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. “Stalin over Wisconsin”: The Making and Unmaking of Militant Unionism, 1900-1950. B…
Stalin over Wisconsin
Negro and White, Unite and Fight
Journal Article “Negro and White, Unite and Fight!”: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking 1930–90. By Roger Horowitz. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xviii, 373 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02320-X. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-06621-9) Get access Nancy Gabin Nancy Gabin Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
Where Men Will Not Work
“Where Men Will Not Work”: Gender, Power, Space, and the Sexual Division of Labor in America’s Meatpacking Industry, 1890-1990 ROGER HOROWITZ Tillie Olsen lived in Omaha’s stockyards district in the 1930s. In her novel, Yonnondio ofthe 1930s, she vividly portrayed work in meat packing’s predominantly female offal and casings rooms: “Yearround breathing with open mouth, learning to pant shallow to en dure the excrement reek of offal, the smother…
Oral History and the Story of America and World War II
Journal Article Oral History and the Story of America and World War II Get access Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 617–624, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082191 Published: 01 Sep…
Work, Race, and Identity
(1999). Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers. The Oral History Review: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 23-43.
Meatpackers
Journal Article Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packing house Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz. (Newark: Twayne, 1996. xviii, 176 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-9120-5.) Get access Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Page…
Unions against Capitalism? A Sociological Comparison of the Australian Building and Metals Workers' Unions
I Remember Like Today
Stalin over Wisconsin
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 623 quences that run throughout the history of cotton technology. For these enormously important stories we have to look elsewhere in the literature ofAfrican-American, agricultural, economic, and southern history. Peter H. Cousins Mr. Cousins is curator of agriculture and industry at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. “Stalin over Wisconsin”: The Making and Unmaking of Militant Unionism, 1900-1950. B…
Stalin over Wisconsin
Social Science History Association
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Oral History and the Story of America and World War II
Journal Article Oral History and the Story of America and World War II Get access Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz associate director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 617–624, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082191 Published: 01 Sep…
Aftermath
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Farm and Factory
Journal Article Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880–1990. By Daniel Nelson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. x, 258 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-32883-7.) Get access Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1036–1037, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945718 Pu…
Meatpackers
Journal Article Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packing house Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz. (Newark: Twayne, 1996. xviii, 176 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-8057-9120-5.) Get access Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Page…
Where Men Will Not Work
“Where Men Will Not Work”: Gender, Power, Space, and the Sexual Division of Labor in America’s Meatpacking Industry, 1890-1990 ROGER HOROWITZ Tillie Olsen lived in Omaha’s stockyards district in the 1930s. In her novel, Yonnondio ofthe 1930s, she vividly portrayed work in meat packing’s predominantly female offal and casings rooms: “Yearround breathing with open mouth, learning to pant shallow to en dure the excrement reek of offal, the smother…
Boys and Their Toys? Masculinity, Technology, and Work
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Great Lobster War
Negro and White, Unite and Fight
Journal Article “Negro and White, Unite and Fight!”: A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking 1930–90. By Roger Horowitz. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xviii, 373 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02320-X. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-06621-9) Get access Nancy Gabin Nancy Gabin Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
Meatpackers
Meatpackers provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest-mostly African-American-talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines. They tell of their fight between the 1930s and 1960s for economic advancement and racial equality. In cities like Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Fort Worth, and Waterloo, Iowa, meatpackers built a union th…
Work, Race, and Identity
(1999). Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers. The Oral History Review: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 23-43.
"Negro and White, Unite and Fight!" A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90
Organizing the Shipyards
Journal Article Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933–1945. By David Palmer. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1998. xx, 264 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-2734-7.) Get access Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1841–1842, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567695 …
His and Hers
Journal Article His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology. Ed. by Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. ix, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-1803-0. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-1802-2.) Get access Ruth Schwartz Cowan Ruth Schwartz Cowan State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Oral History
Oral History: A Century of Living has as its stated organizing principle that all interviewees are at least a hundred years old and the “moments they remember” can teach us about life in the twentieth century. Setting such a broad agenda is almost certainly impossible to fulfill in fifty-seven minutes, and the film does not. What it does do well, however, is provide remarkable insights into the personal lives of Americans in the first third of th…
That Was a Dirty Job!” Technology and Workplace Hazards in Meatpacking Over the Long Twentieth Century
Workplace dangers are inherent in the meatpacking industry because of the nature of tasks necessary to generate meat from animals that come in irregular sizes and to keep that product wholesome for consumers. While meatpacking injuries are both endemic and substantially more prevalent than in most American industries, their danger rests in their cumulative impact and not on dramatic accidents, as is the case in the mining and construction industr…
The Sausage Rebellion
Book Review| April 01 2008 The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890–1917 The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917. Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Roger Horowitz Roger Horowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 267–269. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.267 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter …
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Food Chains
Kosher USA
Roger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher to the success of Manischewitz wine with non-Jewish consumers, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the history of modern Jewish American life as well as American foodways.
Kosher USA
Kosher USA follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. It recounts how iconic products such as Coca-Cola and Jell-O tried to become kosher; the contentious debates among rabbis over the incorporation of modern science into Jewish law; how Manischewitz wine became the first kosher product to win over non-Jewish consumers (principally African Americans); the techniques used by Orthodox rabbinical organi…
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