Product Description: Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons tells the story of the working people of Detroit who, in the first three decades of the twentieth century, made Detroit into one of the world's greatest industrial cities. Ninety previously unpublished photographs offer glimpses of a life that has all but disappeared-from the boarding houses where immigrants slept between shifts, to the backyards and empty lots where children played and the kitchens where women labored...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)