Robert A. Slayton's "Back of the Yards"

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"Robert A. Slayton's (1986) "Back of the Yards": The making of a Local Democracy is an analysis of immigrant groups' adjustment to life in Chicago's meat-packing district from 1865 to the present. Slayton identifies three communities of immigrants, and it is the second, middle community of Slavic workers that provide the focus of his study. The Slavic immigrants managed to sustain a vibrant community in all aspects--social, political, and familial--all within the confines of harsh working conditions and inner city repression.

A study of the Slavic group between the period from 1900 to 1970 provides seventy years of sociological subject matter from which to learn about the immigrant working class in the U.S. The fact that the immigrants were largely successful in adjusting to life in an industrial nation enables one to formulate some principles of "melting pot" success. To a large extent, the immigrants were instrumental in shaping their own destinies through the political system in an often-times corrupt Chicago. Their use of politics for ... "

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