Back of the Yards

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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