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
Main Author: Kefalas, Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rassenverhoudingen.
Arbeidersklasse.
Working class.
Sociology, Urban.
Social values.
Social conditions
Race relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Valeurs sociales > Illinois > Chicago.
Sociologie urbaine > Illinois > Chicago.
Travailleurs > Illinois > Chicago.
Social values > Illinois > Chicago.
Sociology, Urban > Illinois > Chicago.
Working class > Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)
Illinois > Chicago > Beltway.
Illinois > Chicago.
Beltway (Chicago, Ill.)
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (217 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780520936652

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