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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795651903321

Autore

Hubka Thomas C. <1946->

Titolo

How the working-class home became modern, 1900–1940 / / Thomas C. Hubka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-4529-6408-4

0-8166-9301-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Architecture, landscape, and American culture series

Disciplina

305.562097309041

Soggetti

Working class - Dwellings

Social conditions

Domestic space

Cost and standard of living

Domestic space - United States - History

Working class - Dwellings - United States - History

Cost and standard of living - United States - History

History

United States

United States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes"--