Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy by Robert A. Slayton

Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy

Robert A. Slayton

291 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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