Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy Tapa dura - 1986

University of Chicago Press, 1986-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.9000 in x 8.9000 in x 6.1000 in.

UsedVeryGood. minor shelf wear

University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University of Chicago Press, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 278 pp., 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction: the making of a community -- The world the meat-packers made -- Stages in life's way: youth -- Arenas of life: women and the household -- Arenas of life: men and the workplace -- The creation of a social order: the segmented group -- The creation of a social order: the nationalist enclave -- Spheres of power: politics -- Spheres of power: the University of Chicago Settlement House -- The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council -- Democracy realized -- Conclusion: our own destiny. Subjects; Community organization Illinois Chicago ; Case studies. Packing-house workers Illinois Chicago. Neighborhoods. Illinois Chicago Back of the Yards Local communities, to 1950.

University of Chicago Press, 1986-06. Hardcover. Good.

University of Chicago Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First printing, near fine cloth hardcover is tight and clean, in very good + dust jacket that shows some mild edgewear. 278 pages with black & whites and index. Still an attractive copy of this work centered on the area made famous by Upron Sinclair's The Jungle that "..brings together sophistacted social history and oral testimony to present an authentic portrait of that working-class neighborhood.

University of Chicago Press, 1986-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0226761983 . "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. "Until now, the historic Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago has been neglected by social historians. The packinghouse district, made famous by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906), provides a case study in the evolution of an immigrant community over two generations. Originally fragmented by religion and ethnicity, people gradually were drawn together into ever-larger interest groups. Slayton's book, based partly on… Leer más