Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890

By Richard Sennett

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067429226X
• ISBN13: 9780674292260
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Families Against the City

I feel that this book explored the variations of how America's family structure is from past to present.