Factory networks in the industrial metropolis pacyga is the great bard of chicago historian, raconteur, social critic. Utterly disturbing, centuryold photos of meatpacking. Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for mla, apa and chicago turabian citation styles. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read slaughterhouse.
Chicago s union stock yard and the world it made from the worlds largest community of readers. In turnofthecentury berlin, visits to the slaughterhouse were so popular that special tour books were printed to guide visitors through the facility. The jungle, americas most influential proletarian novel, emerged from a seven week investigation of chicagos slaughterhouses. The public outrage caused by this sort of investigative reporting led directly to the a. Search results are sorted by a combination of factors to give you a set of choices in response to your search criteria. Book description for nearly a century, the original version of upton sinclairs classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. Chicago s union stock yard and the world it made ebook written by dominic a. When she was told not to look back at the evil cities of sodom and gomorra, or else she would be turned into a pillar of salt, she did anyway. Slaughterhouse is a critically important book about one of the citys epic neighborhoods. Cite your book in modern language association 8th edition format for free. If you have read upton sinclairs the jungle, and most of us probably have, then you are at least aware of the subject of this book, the chicago this is a rather difficult book to rate.
She remembers her childhood love of books and reading, how she got her. Revisiting the jungle in modern times chicago tribune. Dominic pacyga shares history of chicagos stockyards in slaughterhouse they closed some 44 years ago, but chicagos union stockyards profoundly shaped the development of the city and the modern world. Slaughterhouse tells the story of the union stock yard, chronicling the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or worse, served as the public face of chicago for decades. Generations of workers walked to jobs at dozens of slaughterhouses and packing plants concentrated. Vonnegut, the author, is comparing himself to lots wife in the bible. The jungle is a 1906 novel by the american journalist and novelist upton sinclair 18781968. How chicagos slaughterhouse spectacles paved the way for. The book begins with his wife ona and his wedding feast. Chicago s union stock yard and the world it made, all from the university of chicago press. Upton sinclairs book the jungle exposed the unsanitary. Tourists watched masses of animals move through kill. Researching the book in 1904, upton sinclair interviewed fellow socialists, settlement house officials, health inspectors, and the workers themselves, who smuggled him into meatpacking plants so he could view conditions firsthand. His books include polish immigrants and industrial chicago.
Chicagos union stock yard and the world it made, dominic a. Upton sinclairs book the jungle exposed the unsanitary conditions in the chicago slaughterhouses of the early 1900s. Slaughterhouse book to be presented at bridgeport art center. The main character in the book, jurgis rudkus, a lithuanian immigrant, tries. By the 1890s, the railroad money behind the union stockyards was vanderbilt money. Chicagos union stock yard and the world it made university of chicago press, a new book by. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. The main character in the book, jurgis rudkus, a lithuanian immigrant, tries to make ends meet in chicago.
Chicagos union stock yard and the world it made pacyga, dominic a. Be sure to watch the eyeopening video of activity at a slaughterhouse in 1949. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. Dominic pacyga, a local historian and former stockyard worker, tells the story in his new book slaughterhouse.
After you look at these images of meatpacking facilities from early last century, youll understand why social reformer upton sinclair wrote his great 1906 novel the jungle about workers. How chicago s slaughterhouse spectacles paved the way for big meat. Chicago s union stock yard and the world it made on friday night at the bridgeport art center, 1200 w. He and his family live near the stockyards and meatpacking district where many immigrants, who do not know much english, work. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the united states in chicago and similar industrialized cities. The union stockyards operated in the new city community. Courtesy of university of chicago pressdominic pacyga dave talks with author dominic pacyga about his new book marking the 150 th anniversary of the opening of the stockyards. In 1890 it took about eight to 10 hours for a skilled butcher and his assistant to slaughter and dress a steer on a farm. The jungle, americas most influential proletarian novel, emerged from a sevenweek investigation of chicagos slaughterhouses. Pacyga is a guide like no otherhe grew up in the shadow of the stockyards, spent summers in their hog house and cattle yards, and maintains a. A halfcentury ago this week, kurt vonneguts slaughterhousefive a darkly comic, throughly batshit, semiautobiographical antiwar novel about a fatalistic young american soldier who survives the firebombing of dresden and becomes unstuck in timewas first published.
Pacyga is published by university of chicago press. Slaughterhouses a jungle no more united states the. Dominic pacyga traces chicago stockyards history in. Sinclairs book helped bring into existence, in 1906, the pure food and drug act and the federal meat inspection act, the first in a series of sanitary and.
Sinclairs book told the tale of an immigrant familys toil in chicago s slaughterhouses, tracing the familys physical, financial and emotional collapse. Pacyga is professor emeritus of history in the department of humanities, history, and social sciences at columbia college chicago. For many people henry fords 19 detroit assembly line is a symbol of technological triumph. Dominic pacyga shares history of chicagos stockyards in. Why does the author say that the book was written by a pillar of salt. Opened in 1865, chicago s union stock yard was the greatest livestock market the world had seen. Npr stories about slaughterhouse the famed architectural firm burnham and root designed the iconic entranceway to the union stock yard in. From the minute it openedon christmas day in 1865it was chicagos.
An interview with dominic pacyga chicago historian dominic pacygas latest book slaughterhouse. Pacyga is the great bard of chicagohistorian, raconteur, social critic. They closed some 44 years ago, but chicago s union stockyards profoundly shaped the development of the city and the modern world. In his book slaughterhouse, published last october, the columbia college chicago history professor dominic pacyga traces the rise, fall and rebirth of the citys stockyards.
It is a book that will appeal to a narrow group of readers. As area changes, chicagos last big slaughterhouse moving. For pacyga, a history professor at columbia college chicago. Yp the real yellow pages sm helps you find the right local businesses to meet your specific needs. They all live in a small town named packingtown in chicago. Slaughterhouse is the engrossing story of the creation and transformation of one of the most importantand deadliestsquare miles in american history. The shocking story of greed, neglect, and inhumane treatment inside the u. Chicago is one of the major cities with high rates of obesity and health related illnesses directly caused by consuming animal products.
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