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Deindustrialization and the urban landscape: race, space, and memory in Back of the Yards, 1950-1980
This dissertation explores the decline of the packing industry in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, the community several miles southwest of the loop, in which Upton Sinclair set The Jungle, that was almost entirely dependent on and defined by the meatpacking industry. In particular, it …