Working-class heroes : protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood /
Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and off...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2003.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnjf5 |
| Summary: | Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office workers living in the stable working-class community known as Beltway. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520936652 0520936655 0585466041 9780585466040 9780520227873 0520227875 9780520235434 0520235436 1598750151 9781598750157 128276277X 9781282762770 9786612762772 6612762772 |