How the Working Class Became Modern, 1900?1940
How the Working Class Became Modern, 1900?1940
Thomas C. Hubka
University of Minnesota Press, December 2020
Paperback | 8 x 10 inches | 288 pages | 148 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0816693016 | $40.00
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, electric lights, dining rooms, and bathrooms were the norm as the traditional working-class home was fast becoming modern?a fact largely missing from the story of domestic innovation and improvement in twentieth-century America, where such benefits seem to count primarily among the upper classes and the post?World War II denizens of suburbia. Examining the physical evidence of America?s working-class houses, Thomas C. Hubka revises our understanding of how widespread domestic improvement transformed the lives of Americans in the modern era. His work, focused on the broad central portion of the housing population, recalibrates longstanding ideas about the nature and development of the ?middle class? and its new measure of improvement, ?standards of living.? In How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900?1940, Hubka analyzes a period when millions of average Americans saw accelerated improvement in their housing and domestic conditions. These improvements were intertwined with the acquisition of entirely new mechanical conveniences, new types of rooms and patterns of domestic life, and such innov...
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