Back of the Yards The Making of a Local Democracy |
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| Author:
| Slayton, Robert A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-76199-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1988 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.00 |
Book Description:
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"Robert A. Slayton's Back of the Yards is one of the finest accounts I have ever read on an urban, working-class neighborhood in twentieth-century America. Its focus on family, politics, and worklife is penetrating and its conclusions reinforce an emerging scholarly picture of ordinary people exercising unique forms of power."--John Bodnar, author of The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
"Robert A. Slayton's Back of the Yards is one of the finest accounts I have ever read on an urban, working-class neighborhood in twentieth-century America. Its focus on family, politics, and worklife is penetrating and its conclusions reinforce an emerging scholarly picture of ordinary people exercising unique forms of power."--John Bodnar, author of The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America