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How the working-class home became modern, 1900–1940
- Author / Creator
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- Online
- Summary
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"The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes"--
Details
- Creator
- Thomas C. Hubka
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2021
- ©2021
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9781452964089, 1452964084, 9780816693016, 0816693013, 1452964076
- OCLC
- on1273307644
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : Housing and domestic reform from a middle-majority perspective -- Headwinds to researching common houses : eleven prevailing themes -- Two worlds apart : domestic conditions at the turn of the twentieth century -- Modern houses for a new middle class : new standards of living -- The dwellings of modern domestic reform : cottages, duplexes, multi-units, and remodeled houses -- Domestic life transformed : how the working class became middle-class in housing -- Epilogue : response to working-class improvement