Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood

by Maria J. Kefalas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520235436
• ISBN13: 9780520235434
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"