Back of the Yards

Author	: Robert A. Slayton
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages	: 316
Release	: 1988-04-15
ISBN-10	: 9780226761992
ISBN-13	: 0226761991
Rating	: 4/5 (991 Downloads)

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Download or read book Back of the Yards written by Robert A. Slayton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

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