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Chicago´s Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century
Louise Carroll Wade
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Description for Chicago´s Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century
Paperback. Deals with the growth of Chicago's stockyards and the communities that were formed around them in the mid-to-late 19th century. Num Pages: 440 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
Chicago’s Pride chronicles the growth -- from the 1830s to the 1893 Columbian Exposition - of the communities that sprang up around Chicago’s leading industry. Wade shows that, contrary to the image in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, the Stockyards and Packingtown were viewed by proud Chicagoans as “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Wade traces the rise of the livestock trade and meat-packing industry, efforts to control the resulting air and water pollution, expansion of the work force and status of packinghouse employees, changes within the various ethnic neighborhoods, the vital role of voluntary organizations (especially religious ... Read more
Chicago’s Pride chronicles the growth -- from the 1830s to the 1893 Columbian Exposition - of the communities that sprang up around Chicago’s leading industry. Wade shows that, contrary to the image in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, the Stockyards and Packingtown were viewed by proud Chicagoans as “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Wade traces the rise of the livestock trade and meat-packing industry, efforts to control the resulting air and water pollution, expansion of the work force and status of packinghouse employees, changes within the various ethnic neighborhoods, the vital role of voluntary organizations (especially religious ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071324
SKU
V9780252071324
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About Louise Carroll Wade
Louise Carroll Wade, a retired professor of American social and urban history at the University of Oregon, is the author of Graham Taylor: Pioneer for Social Justice, 1851-1938, and a co-author of A History of the United States (for high school students).
Reviews for Chicago´s Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century
ADVANCE PRAISE "Chicago's Pride ... illuminates our understanding of working-class and labor history, technological and environmental history, business and economic history, and urban history. Wade's work possesses all the elements
thorough and imaginative research, readability, and informed, probing analysis
worthy of a significant book in United States history."
William M. Tuttle Jr., author of Race Riot: Chicago ... Read more
thorough and imaginative research, readability, and informed, probing analysis
worthy of a significant book in United States history."
William M. Tuttle Jr., author of Race Riot: Chicago ... Read more