Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy / Edition 1

by Robert A. Slayton

Overview

"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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226761992
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/15/1988
Series:	Making of a Local Democracy
Edition description:	1
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Making of a Community
1. The World the Meat-Packers Made
2. Stages in Life's Way: Youth
3. Arenas of Life: Women and the Household
4. Arenas of Life: Men and the Workplace
5. The Creation of a Social Order: The Segmented Group
6. The Creation of a Social Order: The Nationalist Enclave
7. Spheres of Power: Politics
8. Spheres of Power: The University of Chicago Settlement House
9. The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council
10. Democracy Realized
Conclusion: Our Own Destiny
Appendix
Notes
Index