Nnbook about chicago stockyards

To this day, the jungle has never been out of print. Pacyga explores the history of the union stock yards, from its opening on christmas day 1865 to its closing in 1971, and looks at the stockyards. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. With an incredible selection of steaks, pork and poultry, seafood, and even appetizers and sides, stock yards is your destination for incredible steaks online, delivered right to your door. The top 10 books about chicago fiction the guardian. In his book slaughterhouse, published last october, the columbia. In his new book, slaughterhouse, chicago historian dominic pacyga goes back to his roots as a laborer in the southside stockyards. By the 1890s, the railroad money behind the union stockyards was vanderbilt money. The city of chicago has an endlessly fascinating history that scholars have explored for several generations. Paul, minnesota, the kansas city, the fort worth, texas stockyards as well. Dominic pacyga traces chicago stockyards history in. His latest work to examine the history of chicago is slaughterhouse. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the united states.

It contains horrific descriptions of working conditions in the stockyards and describes the rampant disregard there for health standards tubercular beef was. This book was filled with information about the regional stockyads around the country. They closed some 44 years ago, but chicago s union stockyards profoundly shaped the development of the city and the modern world. More impressively, he covers all these subdisciplines well in a slim 200 pages of text. The jungle is a 1906 novel by the american journalist and novelist upton sinclair 18781968. From the minute it openedon christmas day in 1865it was chicagos m. I found this book on the tr list of a gr friend thank you cathy k and ordered a copy as the stockyards is a gap in my knowledge of chicago and it has a strong. The pictures, almost all of them from the authors own collection of union stock yard. Chicagos union stockyards closed 40 years ago after handling more than. Pacyga, who has written distinguished histories of the city, is one of those scholars. He and his family live near the stockyards and meatpacking district where many immigrants, who do not.

The story of the phenomenal rise of the chicago slaughterhouses in the. The book differs in many respects from the newspaper serial. If you love throwing premium burgers, steaks, and sausages on the grill when the weather gets warm, there are. His writing is as streamlined and efficient as the disassembly lines that inspired the book, peppered throughout with facts and numbers while. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the united states in chicago and similar industrialized cities. Pacygas 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. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. The book begins with his wife ona and his wedding feast. Dominic pacyga, a local historian and former stockyard worker, tells the story in his new book slaughterhouse.