Название: How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940
Автор: Thomas C. Hubka
Издательство: Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816693013
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 32,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes. 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.