Pacyga, Dominic A.,

Slaughterhouse : Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the world it made / Dominic A. Pacyga. - xvii, 233 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

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.

9780226123097 (cloth : alk. paper)

2015001104


Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago--History.


Stockyards--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--Illinois--Chicago.


Chicago (Ill.)--History.

HD9419.U4 / P33 2015

338.7/63620831