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Author:

Pacyga, Dominic A, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

233 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago--History.
Stockyards--Chicago--Chicago--History.
Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--Chicago.--Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

022612309X
9780226123097 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2015001104

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)