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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

Back of the Yards The Making of a Local Democracy

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/04/1988
      ISBN13: 9780226761992, 978-0226761992
      ISBN10: 0226761991
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      Democracy Urban communities / city life

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      Book Synopsis
      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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