Chicago Made
Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
Chicago Made
Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
Robert Lewis documents how manufacturers, attracted to greenfield sites on the city’s outskirts, began to build factory districts there with the help of an intricate network of railroad owners, real estate developers, financiers, and wholesalers. These immense networks of social ties, organizational memberships, and financial relationships were ultimately more consequential, Lewis demonstrates, than any individual achievement. Beyond simply giving Chicago businesses competitive advantages, they transformed the economic geography of the region. Tracing these transformations across seventy-five years, Chicago Made establishes a broad new foundation for our understanding of urban industrial America.
364 pages | 24 halftones, 17 maps, 30 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2008
Historical Studies of Urban America
Economics and Business: Business--Industry and Labor
Geography: Economic Geography, Urban Geography
History: Urban History
Reviews
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Metropolitan Production System
SECTION I.
BUILDING THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS
1 Chicago, the Mighty City
2 The Suburban Solution
3 Four Factory Districts, 1860–1940
4 The Shifting Geography of Metropolitan Employment:
Starts, Additions, & Moves
SECTION II.
NETWORKING THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS
5 The Metropolitan Geography of Firm Linkages, 1872–1901
6 Forging the Calumet District, 1880–1940
7 Chicago’s Planned Industrial Districts: Clearing and the
Central Manufacturing Districts
8 Networked Space: The Connected Metropolis in the 1920s
9 Manufacturing Production Chains and Wholesaling
10 Local Production Practices and Inter-Firm Linkages:
Chicago’s Automotive Industry, 1900–1940
Conclusion
Appendix: Bankruptcy Records, 1872–1928
Notes
Index
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