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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sennett, Richard, author.

Series:

Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gezin.

Middenklassen.

Middle class families.

Mittelstand.

Social history.

Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.

Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

Middle class families--Illinois--Chicago.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

Local Subjects:

Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

Middle class families--Illinois--Chicago.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.): 2 Ktn.

Edition:

2nd printing 1984. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-43316-5

OCLC:

1013936781