Back of the Yards
Subtitle: The Making of a Local Democracy
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 15, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780226761992
Subjects: American history; Political structures: democracy; Urban communities; Political Science; History - General History; History: American; Politics/International Relations; USA; General; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Political Science / City Planning & Urban Development; Case studies; Chicago; Community organization; Illinois; Packing-house workers
First sentence: Forty-one years after its founding, the community to the west of the Chicago stockyards-known as Back of the Yards-exploded onto the national scene in sensational fashion.