Chicago Stockyards Killing Floor

Praised by the village voice as the most clear eyed account of union organizing on film the killing floor tells the little known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the chicago stockyards.

Chicago stockyards killing floor.

Praised by the village voice as the most clear eyed account of union organizing on film the killing floor tells the little known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the chicago stockyards. Filmed in chicago in 1983 12 years after the demise of the union stock yards an ambitious independent drama called the killing floor traveled a long slippery road to completion. But those in. The screenplay by obie award winner leslie lee based on an original story by producer elsa rassbach traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city s giant.

The killing floor re released. Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama. Now showing as part of film forum s pandemic induced virtual cinema program the killing floor is a striking illustration of the need to synthesize class and race based on the experience of trying to build a trade union in chicago s stockyards during wwi it is an object lesson on the need to abandon white privilege. To the true story of black and white slaughterhouse workers trying to build an interracial union for the first time in chicago s stockyards.