Working-class heroes : protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kefalas, Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Working class > Illinois > Chicago.
Sociology, Urban > Illinois > Chicago.
Social values > Illinois > Chicago.
Travailleurs > Illinois > Chicago.
Sociologie urbaine > Illinois > Chicago.
Valeurs sociales > Illinois > Chicago.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Race relations.
Social conditions
Social values.
Sociology, Urban.
Working class.
Arbeidersklasse.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations.
Beltway (Chicago, Ill.)
Illinois > Chicago.
Illinois > Chicago > Beltway.
Chicago (Ill.)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: In Search of Working-Class Chicago
  • 1. Rethinking Race in the Ethnic White Enclave
  • 2. A Precious Corner of the World
  • 3. Home, Sweet Home
  • 4. For Country and Home
  • Conclusion: The Last Garden
  • App. In the Field.

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