Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy - Softcover

Slayton, Robert A.

 
9780226761992: Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy

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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

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ISBN 10:  0226761983 ISBN 13:  9780226761985
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1986
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