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Slaughterhouse : Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the world it made / Dominic A. Pacyga.

By: Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015Description: xvii, 233 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226123097 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7/63620831 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9419.U4 P33 2015
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD9419 .U4 P33 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001361954

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.

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