Dominic A. Pacyga is a faculty member in the Liberal Education Department at Columbia College. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on the history of Chicago, including The Chicago Bungalow, Chicago: City of Neighborhoods, and Chicago's Southeast Side.
"A well-organized, thoughtful work which amply demonstrates the
author's command of the literature on labor, social, and class
history. . . . Pacyga illustrates better than any previous author
the relationship of Polish behavior in America to the traditional
values and practices of Polish peasant society in Europe."
--James S. Pula "Journal of American Ethnic History"
"A classic social history of one immigrant community. Yet it also
links the experiences of Poles on the South Side of Chicago to
broader elements of social, class, and labor history. [Pacyga's]
work offers important insights into American history during the
Gilded Age and the Progressive Era."--The History Teacher "August
2005" (8/1/2005 12:00:00 AM)
"Its outstanding quality is the description of the life of its
subjects. . . . [Pacyga] offers a graphic and vivid picture of what
it was like for an unskilled, blue-collar foreign worker to labor
in the arduous and dangerous environments of the slaughterhouse and
the steel mill at the turn of the century"--Victor Greene "The
Journal of American History"
"Scholars who have followed the recent scholarship of Lizabeth
Cohen's Making a New Deal (1990) and of Robert A. Slayton's Back of
the Yards (1986) will wish to study Pacyga's valuable monograph in
more detail."--Joseph J. Parot "American Historical Review"
(2/1/1993 12:00:00 AM)
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