Title
Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy
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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
ISBN
9780226761992
Publication Date
1988
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
City
Chicago, IL
Keywords
Chicago, city councils, local government, democracy
Disciplines
American Politics | Civic and Community Engagement | Politics and Social Change | United States History | Urban Studies and Planning | Work, Economy and Organizations
Recommended Citation
Slayton, Robert A. Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Copyright
University of Chicago Press
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