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291 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226761992
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 April 1988
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 ...
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291 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226761992
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 April 1988
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 ...