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How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940 / Thomas C. Hubka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hubka, Thomas C., 1946- author.
- Series:
- Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cost and standard of living--United States--History.
- Cost and standard of living.
- Working class--Dwellings--United States--History.
- Working class.
- Domestic space--United States--History.
- Domestic space.
- History.
- Working class--Dwellings.
- United States--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 261 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hubka, Thomas C., 1946- How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940
- ISBN:
- 9781452964072
- 1452964076
- 9780816693016
- 0816693013
- Publisher Number:
- 40030309691
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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