Challenging Chicago : coping with everyday life, 1837-1920 / Perry R. Duis.

Main entry:

Duis, Perry, 1943-

Title & Author:

Challenging Chicago : coping with everyday life, 1837-1920 / Perry R. Duis.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-411) and index.
Coping with a new sense of place -- Counting minutes and miles -- Housing strategies -- Living in the inherited city -- The risky business of food -- Eating out -- Reducing risk and taking control -- Amusements, crowds, and morals -- Chicago is work -- Getting ahead on your own -- Time, risk, and family finances -- The institutional trap -- Conclusion: Coping with urban life.

Summary:

Risky city. This was Chicago during an unprecedented period of rapid growth: a burgeoning metropolis that quickly became a "concentration of risk." The many thousands of immigrants and rural Americans who streamed into the city during these years found it far more congested, crowded, dangerous, unpleasant, immoral, and unhealthy than they had anticipated. Challenging Chicago reveals the survival strategies to which the many people who flocked to the city resorted, especially those of the lower and middle classes for whom urban life was a new experience.

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ISBN:

0252023943 (acid-free paper)
9780252023941 (acid-free paper)
0252074157
9780252074158

Subject:

Sociology, Urban Illinois Chicago.
City and town life Illinois Chicago.
Social mobility Illinois Chicago.
Sociologie urbaine Illinois Chicago.
Vie urbaine Illinois Chicago.
Mobilité sociale Illinois Chicago.
City and town life.
Economic history.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions
Social mobility.
Sociology, Urban.
Alltag
Dagelijks leven.
Geschichte 1837-1920.
Chicago (Ill.) Social life and customs.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) Economic conditions.
Illinois Chicago.
Chicago, Ill.
City and town life Chicago Illinois

Form/genre:

Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202134
Call No.: HN80.C5 D8 1998
Status: Available

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