How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940.

Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Housing and Domestic Reform from a Middle-Majority Perspective -- Chapter 1: Headwinds to Researching Common Houses: Eleven Prevailing Themes -- Chapter 2: Two Worlds Apart: Domestic Conditions at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3: Modern Houses for a New Middle Class: New Standards of Living -- Chapter 4: The Dwellings of Modern Domestic Reform: Cottages, Duplexes, Multi-Units, and Remodeled Houses -- Chapter 5: Domestic Life Transformed: How the Working Class Became Middle Class in Housing -- Epilogue: Response to Working-Class Improvement -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

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