Back of the Yards
The Making of a Local Democracy
9780226761992
Back of the Yards
The Making of a Local Democracy
"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
291 pages | 37 halftones, 1 map | 5.90 x 8.90 | © 1986
History: American History, Urban History
Sociology: Urban and Rural Sociology