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Back of the Yards : The Making of a Local Democracy
Back of the Yards The Making of a Local Democracy
Author: Robert A. Slayton
"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 Bodna...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226761992
ISBN-10: 0226761991
Publication Date: 4/15/1988
Pages: 291
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Great history of Chicago's south side, it's ethnic heritage,and political history. Good historical reference of the area, with names, places, even religious hsitory.


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