The Pig And The Skyscraper Analysis

In the book The Pig and the Skyscraper the author Marco d’Eramo claims that Chicago is full of inequality and forms of capitalism. In the chapter “Arrival in Chicagoland” d’Eramo explains why Chicago is nicknamed the windy city, because of Lake Michigan being near it. He also writes about the extreme weather changes like winters being even more cold because of Lake Michigan's presence and the harsh winds. As opposed to the summers which are very hot were the people will go to Lake Michigan to cool off, but they also cause terrors to certain residents. In the “Mathematics of Pork” chapters d’Eramo gives example of how Chicago shows a form of capitalism, he talks about the meat packing industry and uses descriptive writing to show the reader how gruesome it was. d’Eramo also writes about the in his chapter “ The Tracks of Tomorrow” about “railroad capitalism”, and he goes into depth about .In the Chapter Sky …show more content…
But because of the railroads many civilians from China were imported to work there. In this chapter d’Eramo provides evidence on how Chicago is full of inequality, because he claims the city not only has “unequaled opportunity not only for studying the monuments of this capitalism, but for exploring the phenomena it has generated.” When they were bringing people in from China to Chicago they were also deporting Indian people to africa, to the Indians it seemed unfair for them to be deported from their land and not given the opportunity to experience the railroads. d’Eramo also talks about “car capitalism” and that its has taken over leaving the railroads behind. One of the problems of the railroads was the fixed cost, because d’Eramo’s claims that “ More than one-quarter of the company's expenses were to pay back the loans for an initial

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