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UNINA9910449892703321 |
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Autore |
Kefalas Maria |
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Titolo |
Working-class heroes [[electronic resource] ] : protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood / / Maria Kefalas |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-59875-015-1 |
0-520-93665-5 |
1-282-76277-X |
9786612762772 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Working class - Illinois - Chicago |
Sociology, Urban - Illinois - Chicago |
Social values - Illinois - Chicago |
Electronic books. |
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions |
Chicago (Ill.) Race relations |
Beltway (Chicago, Ill.) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-194) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. In Search of Working-Class Chicago -- ONE. Rethinking Race in the Ethnic White Enclave -- TWO. A Precious Corner of the World -- THREE. Home, Sweet Home -- FOUR. For Country and Home -- CONCLUSION. The Last Garden -- Appendix: In the Field -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 office workers living in the stable working-class community known as Beltway. Building on the classic Chicago School of urban studies and incorporating new perspectives from cultural |
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