Presents evidence that the saloon, played an important role in the working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in Chicago and Boston, this book offers a discussion of the saloon, as a social institution and a locus of the struggle between middle-class notions of privacy and working-class uses of public space.

The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920

Business & Money

Duis, Perry

Economics

University of Illinois Press

Provides details of life in Chicago for lower- and middle-class people, from 1837 to 1920.

Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920

History

Americas

This colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being a magnet for vice and crime, played an important role in working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in "wide open" Chicago and tightly controlled Boston, Duis offers a provocative discussion of the saloon as a social institution and a locus of the struggle between middle-class notions of privacy and working-class uses of public space.

Chicago: Creating new traditions

Chicago Historical Society

144 pages. Softcover. Published by Chicago Historical Society, 1976.

Chicago: Creating New Traditions

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The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920

Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920

The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920

Chicago: Creating new traditions

Chicago: Creating New Traditions