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"Robert A. Slayton'sBack of the Yardsis 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 ofThe Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban AmericaSlayton, Robert A. is the author of 'Back of the Yards The Making of a Local Democracy', published 1988 under ISBN 9780226761992 and ISBN 0226761991.
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