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ISBN
9780226123097
Book Title
Slaughterhouse : Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication Year
2015
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.8in
Author
Dominic A. Pacyga
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Topic
Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), United States / 19th Century
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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An engrossing and startling history of Chicago's Union Stock Yard, Dominic Pacyga's meticulous and fresh book addresses more than the rise and fall of the industrial district that for so long was a critical part of what defined Chicago, its immigrants, its economy, its environmental health (or lack thereof), and its politics. While Pacyga knows those aspects like few others do—having grown up in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and worked in the stockyards himself as a young man—he has here unearthed a history of gruesome spectacle amid the flowering of industrial modernity. A tourist attraction, an industrial marvel, and the crucible of our industrialized food system, the stockyards have long been a critical part of what made Chicago Chicago—and even today, innovation continues to flourish there, as new forms of agriculture and industry take shape on this charmed site.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022612309x
ISBN-13
9780226123097
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038265758

Product Key Features

Book Title
Slaughterhouse : Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Author
Dominic A. Pacyga
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), United States / 19th Century
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hd9419.U4p33 2015
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A slim volume ha adds to Dominic A. Pacyga's extensive Chicago scholarship, S laughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made surveys the city's meatpacking industry from its mid- nineteenth-century origins to its post-World War II demise and beyond... Slaughterhouse is an accessible introduction to the history of Chicago's famous stockyards, holding appeal for a general audience--particularly those interested in Chicago history--and undergraduates., For many people Henry Ford's 1913 Detroit assembly line is a symbol of technological triumph. This book shows that Chicago's 1865 disassembly line was an earlier more complete wonder, rapidly transporting animals, keeping them healthy and watered, dividing them into a wide variety of of products, communicating ownership and destination, and keeping meticulous accounts of all the processes. The speed and dexterity were put on display, proudly exploiting labor, advertising efficiency, making Chicago incredibly wealthy. This is a stunning account of the growth, complexity, rewards, and costs of modernity., (A) considerable achievement: writing a short, readable, multi-dimensional history of the Union Stock Yard from dawn to dusk that prompts readers to think differently about the past and also points neighborhood residents to a potentially brighter economic future., Pacyga has written an intimate, elegant, fascinating, and informative story of one of America's greatest industrial complexes. As Pacyga shows, the dismal, exploitative, vibrant, and contested histories of the stockyards and the meatpacking factories are illustrative of both the fractured dynamics of American industrial capitalism and the rise and fall of the great industrial city of Chicago. Slaughterhouse is vital reading for all concerned with urban, industrial, and social history., Pacyga has taken as his subject a single square mile, a small patch of urban land on the south side of Chicago, and has told an epic story--the rise of the Union Stockyards and Packingtown, their heyday as a great industrial complex and engine of modern America, their precipitous decline after World War II and their unexpected recent resurgence as a site of new industrial possibilities. It is a big story of rapid, and frequently unsettling, economic, technological, and social change, and Pacyga has told it in a vivid and compelling way., Dominic Pacyga's book about Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the surrounding neighborhood is all at once a history of technology and a work of urban, business, and labor history. More impressively, he covers all these subdisciplines well in a slim 200 pages of text. The pictures, almost all of them from the author's own collection of Union Stock Yard ephemera, are astonishing and worth the cost of the book all by themselves. . . . The mastery of so many diverse subdisciplines on display here could teach any historian a thing or two about subjects thy think they already know., Adds to Dominic A. Pacyga's extensive Chicago scholarship, S laughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made surveys the city's meatpacking industry from its mid- nineteenth-century origins to its post-World War II demise and beyond. . . . Slaughterhouse is an accessible introduction to the history of Chicago's famous stockyards, holding appeal for a general audience--particularly those interested in Chicago history--and undergraduates., Pacyga is the great bard of Chicago-historian, raconteur, social critic. Slaughterhouse is a critically important book about one of the city's epic neighborhoods., In Pacyga's capable hands, the arc of the stockyards mirrors Chicago's--a model of the Industrial Revolution that fell on hard times in the late twentith century and is now reinventing itself. His writing is as streamlined and efficient as the disassembly lines that inspired the book., Chicago meatpacking is a well-trod subject, but historian Pacyga offers a fresh cut by focusing on the 'Square Mile' encompassing the Union Stock Yard and Packingtown. . . . Highly recommended., Chicago meatpacking is a well-trod subject, but historian Pacyga offers a fresh cut by focusing on the 'Square Mile' encompassing the Union Stock Yard and Packingtown. . . . Highly recommended., Slaughterhouse focuses on the site where Chicago staked its claim as Hog Butcher of the world, not on a particular era, firm, organization, or technology. The book explains physical transformations--like the erection of elevated livestock viaducts and fires that ravaged structures on the site...A strength of the book is that it tells both the rise of the Chicago stock-yards and also catalogues their decline...The stockyard's decline adds new insights into developments in Chicago's social and economic history, and that of the political economy of modern food systems., Tracing the development of the 500-plus acre facility from the consolidation of several geographically scattered smaller stockyards before the Civil War, through the heyday of the Chicago industry, and into the era of decline in the 1950s, Pacyga ably synthesizes a vast amount of recent scholarship and draws upon his own original research to craft a compelling and highly readable narrative., Dominick Pacyga is the great bard of Chicago-historian, raconteur, social critic. Slaughterhouse is a critically important book about one of the city's epic neighborhoods., In Pacyga's capable hands, the arc of the stockyards mirrors Chicago's--a model of the Industrial Revolution that fell on hard times in the late 20th century and is now reinventing itself. His writing is as streamlined and efficient as the disassembly lines that inspired the book., "The city of Chicago has an endlessly fascinating history that scholars have explored for several generations. Dominic A. Pacyga, who has written distinguished histories of the city, is one of those scholars. His latest work to examine the history of Chicago is Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made . . . . Few scholars . . . have focused on the Yard as a distinct place with a history all its own and how that history relates to Chicago, the Midwest, and the world. Pacyga writes that history, primarily as the rise and fall of the Union Stock Yard, though that significant "Square Mile," Pacyga makes clear, has a life after the Yard., Pacyga's book about Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the surrounding neighborhood is all at once a history of technology and a work of urban, business, and labor history. More impressively, he covers all these subdisciplines well in a slim 200 pages of text. The pictures, almost all of them from the author's own collection of Union Stock Yard ephemera, are astonishing and worth the cost of the book all by themselves. . . . The mastery of so many diverse subdisciplines on display here could teach any historian a thing or two about subjects thy think they already know., This is the thrilling story of Chicago's rise to power on the national stage; not just the 'hog butcher to the world,' but an industrial giant that led in technological innovations.
Table of Content
Preface Confronting the Modern in Chicago's Square Mile 1 Spectacle Facing the Modern World 2 Genesis From Swamp to Industrial Giant 3 Working in the Yards The Move to the Modern 4 "Success Comes to Those Who Hustle Wisely" The Emergence of the Greatest Livestock Market in the World 5 Slaughterhouse Blues The Decline and Fall of the Union Stock Yard 6 Innovate for Efficiency--Though with Less Stench The Square Mile after the Union Stock Yard Acknowledgments Notes Index
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-001104
Dewey Decimal
338.7/63620831
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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