Presents evidence that the saloon, played an important role in the working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in Chicago and Boston, this book offers a discussion of the saloon, as a social institution and a locus of the struggle between middle-class notions of privacy and working-class uses of public space.
Presents evidence that the saloon, played an important role in the working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in Chicago and Boston, th...
During an unprecedented period of rapid growth, the burgeoning metropolis of Chicago quickly became a "concentration of risk". Through vignettes and real-life stories, this work reveals lower and middle-class peoples' strategies for coping with technology, crowding, anonymity, and other urban ills.
During an unprecedented period of rapid growth, the burgeoning metropolis of Chicago quickly became a "concentration of risk". Through vignettes and r...
