Building a social contract : modern workers' houses in early-twentieth century Detroit / Michael McCulloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCulloch, Michael, 1734-1801, author.

Series:

Urban life, landscape, and policy.

Urban Life, Landscape and Policy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic.

Cost and standard of living.

Housing.

Social history.

Working class--Dwellings.

Working class.

Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Detroit (Mich.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Explores developments in Detroit's early twentieth-century workers' housing as a significant moment in global architectural history. Argues that the city's workers and employers negotiated an implicit social contract in which the work of mass production was rewarded with access to modern housing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I: Migration. Passages: Moving to and through houses in an industrial city

American houses: architecture of the melting pot project

Part II: Modernization. Forms of modern housing: alternative models from Dessau to Detroit

Modern housebuilding: policy, products, and labor

Detroit's other industry: real estate and the culture of elusive security

Better lives: making do in modern houses

Part III: Struggle. Glass and stones: materials of race and neighborhood violence

Social contract in crisis: welfare, eviction, and activism in the Depression.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781439923931

1439923930