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.