Title: Back of the Yards
Description: "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
Subjects: Packing-house workers, Case studies, Neighborhood, Community organization, Democracy, history, Local government, Neighborhoods, Organisation communautaire, Cas, études de, Viande, Industrie et commerce, Quartiers (urbanisme)
Places: Chicago, Illinois