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Household Accounts Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States

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ISBN-10: 0801437237

ISBN-13: 9780801437236

Edition: 2015

Authors: Susan Porter Benson, David Montgomery

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With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of differing races and ethnicities, she argues that working-class families of the time were not on the verge of entering the middle class and embracing mass culture. Rather, she contends that during the interwar period such families lived in a context of scarcity and limited resources, not plenty. Their consumption, Benson argues, revolved around hard choices about basic needs and provided therapeutic satisfactions only secondarily, if at…    
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Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

The late David Montgomery was Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and the author of several books, including The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 .

A Note on Household Accounts and Its Preparation
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"Living on the Margin": Working-Class Marriages and Family Survival Strategies
"Cooperative Conflict": Gender, Generation, and Consumption in Working-Class Families
The Mutuality of Shared Spaces
What Goes 'Round, Comes 'Round: Working-Class Reciprocity
The Family Economy in the Marketplace
Class, Gender, and Reciprocity: An Afterword
Notes
Index