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Slaughterhouse - Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made (Paperback)
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Slaughterhouse - Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made (Paperback)
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Loot Price R570
Discovery Miles 5 700
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From the minute it opened--on Christmas Day in 1865--it was
Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a
million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even
school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union
Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look at the city's
industrial prowess as they witnessed cattle, hogs, and sheep
disassembled with breathtaking efficiency. At their height, the
kill floors employed 50,000 workers and processed six hundred
animals an hour, an astonishing spectacle of industrialized death.
Slaughterhouse tells the story of the Union Stock Yard, chronicling
the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or
worse, served as the public face of Chicago for decades. Dominic A.
Pacyga is a guide like no other--he grew up in the shadow of the
stockyards, spent summers in their hog house and cattle yards, and
maintains a longstanding connection with the working-class
neighborhoods around them. Pacyga takes readers through the
packinghouses as only an insider can, covering the rough and toxic
life inside the plants and their lasting effects on the world
outside. He shows how the yards shaped the surrounding
neighborhoods and controlled the livelihoods of thousands of
families. He looks at the Union Stock Yard's political and economic
power and its sometimes volatile role in the city's race and labor
relations. And he traces its decades of mechanized innovations,
which introduced millions of consumers across the country to an
industrialized food system. Once the pride and signature stench of
a city, the neighborhood is now home to Chicago's most successful
green agriculture companies. Slaughterhouse is the engrossing story
of the creation and transformation of one of the most
important--and deadliest--square miles in American history.
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