Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | History |
---|---|
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dominic A Pacyga |
ISBN: | 9780226123097 022612309X |
OCLC Number: | 1035764936 |
Description: | 1 v. (xvii-233 p.) : illustrations, carte, jaquette illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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 |
Responsibility: | Dominic A. Pacyga. |
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "Slaughterhouse : Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the world it made".
Be the first.
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(14)
- Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago -- History.
- Stockyards -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
- Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- Illinois -- Chicago.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History.
- Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago.
- Slaughtering and slaughter-houses.
- Stockyards.
- Illinois -- Chicago.
- Marchés aux bestiaux -- États-Unis -- Chicago (Ill.) -- 19e siècle.
- Marchés aux bestiaux -- États-Unis -- Chicago (Ill.) -- 20e siècle.
- Abattoirs -- États-Unis -- Chicago (Ill.) -- 19e siècle.
- Abattoirs -- États-Unis -- Chicago (Ill.) -- 20e siècle.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- 19e siècle.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- 20e siècle.