Families against the City : : Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890 / / Richard Sennett.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1970
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:2nd printing 1984. Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.) :; illustrated
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE TO THE 1984 EDITION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part One Prologue: The Development of Union Park’s Home Life
  • 1. THE FULLNESS OF LIFE: UPPER CLASS FAMILIES IN UNION PARK BEFORE THE GREAT FIRE
  • 2. A CHANGE IN OBJECTIVE CONDITIONS: WHY UNION PARK BECAME A DIFFERENT COMMUNITY
  • 3. LITTLE ISLANDS OF PROPRIETY: MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY LIFE IN UNION PARK
  • Part Two: The Patterns of a Year
  • 4. UNION PARK’S PLACE IN A MODERN DEBATE ABOUT FAMILIES
  • 5. ELEMENTARY CONDITIONS OF FAMILY AND LABOR
  • 6. THE STAGES OF FAMILY LIFE
  • 7. THE TIES OF FAMILY AND WORK
  • Part Three: Social Mobility and Intense Family Life
  • 8. TRACING FAMILIES
  • 9. THE SOCIAL MOBILITY OF TWO GENERATIONS
  • 10. THE EVOLUTION OF FAMILY INTENSITY
  • 11. UNION PARK FAMILIES AND THE CULTURE OF INDUSTRIAL CITIES
  • Technical Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index
  • PUBLICATIONS OF THE JOINT CENTER FOR URBAN STUDIES