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

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 from cultural geography and sociology, Maria Kefalas considers the significance of home, community, and nation for Beltway residents.

Author: Maria Kefalas
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 02/17/2003
Pages: 217
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9780520235434
ISBN10: 0520235436
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- History | Americas (North Central South West Indies)

About the Author
Maria Kefalas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University.