"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 organizations) in shaping the new community, and the ethnic influences on politics in this "instant" industrial suburb and powerful magnet for entrepreneurs, wage earners, and their families.
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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 in the Red Summer of 1919
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Chicago's early settlers pegged their hopes for a thriving community on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dressed beef men, stockyards officials, beef workers, packinghouse butchers, packinghouse products, pork workers, yardage fees, livestock shippers, skilled cattle butchers, dressed heel, town hoard, rendering tanks, livestock receipts, livestock dealers, lyde park, area packers, sanitary superintendent, livestock shipments, livestock growers, packinghouse workers, sanitary history, pork house, stockyard company, pork packers, nonpartisan coalitions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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dressed beef men, stockyards officials, beef workers, packinghouse butchers, packinghouse products, pork workers, yardage fees, livestock shippers, skilled cattle butchers, dressed heel, town hoard, rendering tanks, livestock receipts, livestock dealers, lyde park, area packers, sanitary superintendent, livestock shipments, livestock growers, packinghouse workers, sanitary history, pork house, stockyard company, pork packers, nonpartisan coalitions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Branch, Cook County, Union Stock Yard, Knights of Labor, Fifth Ward, Rock Island, Kansas City, Illinois Central, Michigan Southern, Philip Armour, State Street, Ashland Avenue, Gustavus Swift, Michigan Central, Chicago's Pride, History of Chicago, Lake Shore, University of Chicago, Fort Wayne, Civil War, Chicago Historical Society, Samuel Allerton, Labor Enquirer, Thomas Gahan New!
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