Isbn: 9780226761985 - Back of the Yards: the Making of a Local Democracy (8 results)

Condition: Good. Ex library. Light wear to boards. Tape marks to end papers. Content is bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 278 pp., 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction: the making of a community -- The world the meat-packers made -- Stages in life's way: youth -- Arenas of life: women and the household -- Arenas of life: men and the workplace -- The creation of a social order: the segmented group -- The creation of a social order: the nationalist enclave -- Spheres of power: politics -- Spheres of power: the University of Chicago Settlement House -- The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council -- Democracy realized -- Conclusion: our own destiny. Subjects; Community organization Illinois Chicago ; Case studies. Packing-house workers Illinois Chicago. Neighborhoods. Illinois Chicago Back of the Yards Local communities, to 1950. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 278 pp., 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction: the making of a community -- The world the meat-packers made -- Stages in life's way: youth -- Arenas of life: women and the household -- Arenas of life: men and the workplace -- The creation of a social order: the segmented group -- The creation of a social order: the nationalist enclave -- Spheres of power: politics -- Spheres of power: the University of Chicago Settlement House -- The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council -- Democracy realized -- Conclusion: our own destiny. Subjects; Community organization Illinois Chicago ; Case studies. Packing-house workers Illinois Chicago. Neighborhoods. Illinois Chicago Back of the Yards Local communities, to 1950. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First edition. First printing, near fine cloth hardcover is tight and clean, in very good + dust jacket that shows some mild edgewear. 278 pages with black & whites and index. Still an attractive copy of this work centered on the area made famous by Upron Sinclair's The Jungle that ".brings together sophistacted social history and oral testimony to present an authentic portrait of that working-class neighborhood.".…

Condition: Very Good. Light shelfwear to extremities of dustjacket, otherwise fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. "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. "Until now, the historic Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago has been neglected by social historians. The packinghouse district, made famous by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906), provides a case study in the evolution of an immigrant community over two generations. Originally fragmented by religion and ethnicity, people gradually were drawn together into ever-larger interest groups. Slayton's book, based partly on interviews, presents a colorful and moving picture of this diverse area, its people, their homes, and their jobs. The author's sensitivity to the community's character sometimes leads him dangerously close to veneration and a facile interpretation of democratic progress. Nevertheless, this is recommended for those interested in the emergence of cities." Charles K. Piehl . FINE/FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

hardcover. Condition: As New.