Families Against the City

Middle-Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890

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by Richard Sennett

Harvard University Press

Due/Published September 1984, 270 pages, paper

ISBN 067429226x

Combining what the 'Chicago Tribune' calls 'all the resources of modern scholarship and an impressive intelligence of his own Mr. Stennett analyzes how middle class families lived and worked in Chicago a century ago.