Chicago made
Subtitle: factory networks in the industrial metropolis
By: Robert Lewis.
Series: Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780226477015
Subjects: Industrial districts -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Industrialization -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Urbanization -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chicago, the mighty city; title: The suburban solution; title: Four factory districts, 1860-1940; title: The shifting geography of metropolitan employment: starts, additions and moves; title: The metropolitan geography of firm linkages, 1872-1901; title: Forging the Calumet district, 1880-1940; title: Chicago's planned industrial districts: clearing and the central manufacturing districts; title: Networked space: the connected metropolis in the 1920s; title: Manufacturing production chains and wholesaling; title: Local production practices and inter-firm linkages: Chicago's automotive industry, 1900-1940.