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Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: ByrdShop_0252012666
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hardcover – October 1, 1986

by Louise Carroll Wade

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ISBN-13: 9780252012662 ISBN-10: 0252012666

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Binding

hardcover

Published

October 1, 1986

Weight

1.7 lbs

Dimensions

23.50×2.50×15.90 cm

About this book

Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century by Louise Carroll Wade. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780252012662.

Offers a history of the meat industry in Chicago from the rise of pork and the creation of the Chicago stockyards in the 1830s to the fight for an eight-hour day for packinghouse workers and the creation of a solid community.