Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy

Author/Contributor(s):	Slayton, Robert A
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	04/15/1988
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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