Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
ISBN:
9780520323742
Serie:
UC Press voices revived
Inhalt:
Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to reform domestic labor, raise family health, and build family assets. New Deal incentives led to nearly fifty percent of Title I National Housing Act loans being us
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Contents -- Plates -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Did Electrical Modernization Cause a Social Revolution in the American Home in the 1920s? -- Chapter 1. The Limits of Private Electrical Modernization, 1919-1929 -- Chapter 2. The Reform Tradition -- Chapter 3. Homes or Industry? -- Chapter 4. The New Deal in Electrical Modernization -- Chapter 5. The New Deal Saves the Home, 1933-1949 -- Chapter 6. Political Paths to Electrical Modernization -- Chapter 7. The Culmination of the New Deal in Electrical Modernization, 1945-1960 -- Notes
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Selected Bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520365926
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tobey, Ronald C Technology As Freedom Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2022 ISBN 9780520365926
Sprache:
Englisch
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