Title: Chicago’s Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Louise Carroll Wade
Edition: Paperback reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (Urbana and Chicago)
ISBN: 9780252071324 (ISBN-10: 0252071328)
Language: English
Pages: About 440 (the 1987 hardcover is xvi + 423, so check your count)
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 2002
Genre: American History, Urban and Industrial History
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Chicago’s Pride is Louise Carroll Wade’s history of Chicago’s Union Stockyards and the communities that grew up around them, from the 1830s to the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Wade, professor emerita of American history at the University of Oregon, argues that Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle gives only one view, and that Chicagoans of the period saw the stockyards and Packingtown as a marvel of the age. She covers the rise of the livestock trade and the meatpacking industry, efforts to control air and water pollution, the growth of the workforce and the status of packinghouse workers, and the changes in the ethnic neighbourhoods. She also covers the part voluntary and religious organisations played in forming the community, and the ethnic influences on politics in this new industrial suburb. The cover shows a period engraving of the stockyards gate and the cattle pens. This copy is in very good condition.
Title: Chicago’s Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Louise Carroll Wade
Edition: Paperback reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (Urbana and Chicago)
ISBN: 9780252071324 (ISBN-10: 0252071328)
Language: English
Pages: About 440 (the 1987 hardcover is xvi + 423, so check your count)
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 2002
Genre: American History, Urban and Industrial History
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Chicago’s Pride is Louise Carroll Wade’s history of Chicago’s Union Stockyards and the communities that grew up around them, from the 1830s to the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Wade, professor emerita of American history at the University of Oregon, argues that Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle gives only one view, and that Chicagoans of the period saw the stockyards and Packingtown as a marvel of the age. She covers the rise of the livestock trade and the meatpacking industry, efforts to control air and water pollution, the growth of the workforce and the status of packinghouse workers, and the changes in the ethnic neighbourhoods. She also covers the part voluntary and religious organisations played in forming the community, and the ethnic influences on politics in this new industrial suburb. The cover shows a period engraving of the stockyards gate and the cattle pens. This copy is in very good condition.
