Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood

by Maria Kefalas

Overview

Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office workers living in the stable working-class community known as Beltway. Building on the classic Chicago School of urban studies and incorporating new perspectives from cultural geography and sociology, Maria Kefalas considers the significance of home, community, and nation for Beltway residents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520235434
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	02/17/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)

About the Author

Maria Kefalas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Tables 
Acknowledgments 
INTRODUCTION
In Search of Working-Class Chicago 
ONE
Rethinking Race in the Ethnic White Enclave 
TWO
A Precious Corner of the World 
THREE
Home, Sweet Home 
FOUR
For Country and Home 
CONCLUSION
The Last Garden 
Appendix: In the Field 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index