How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture Series .
- Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture Series .
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.
9781452964072
Cost and standard of living-United States-History. Domestic space-United States-History. Working class-Dwellings-United States-History. United States-Social conditions.