Slaughterhouse : Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the world it made / Dominic A. Pacyga.
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015Description: xvii, 233 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226123097 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 338.7/63620831 23
- HD9419.U4 P33 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.
Preface: confronting the modern in Chicago's Square Mile -- Spectacle: facing the modern world -- Genesis: from swamp to industrial giant -- Working in the yards: the move to the modern -- "Success comes to those who hustle wisely": the emergence of the greatest livestock market in the world -- Slaughterhouse blues: the decline and fall of the Union Stock Yard -- Innovate for efficiency though with less stench: the square mile after the Union -- Stock yard.