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

by Susan Porter Benson

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:080145672X

ISBN13:9780801456725

Release Date:September 2015

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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