Back of the Yards
Back of the Yards
About this book
"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
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL5100448W
Subjects
Packing-house workersCase studiesNeighborhoodCommunity organizationDemocracy, historyLocal governmentNeighborhoodsOrganisation communautaireCas, études deViandeIndustrie et commerceQuartiers (urbanisme)