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Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy / Edition 1

Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy / Edition 1 in Bloomington, MN
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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 emerging scholarly picture of ordinary people exercising unique forms of power."--John Bodnar, author of
The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
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