An edition of Back of the Yards (1986)
Back of the yards
the making of a local democracy
By Robert A. Slayton
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Publish Date
1986
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
299
Description:
"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