The working man's reward : Chicago's early suburbs and the roots of American sprawl / Elaine Lewinnek.
Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership, viewing homes as a consumer-oriented respite from work and a productive space they hoped to control. Spurred by ideas about the gendered respectability of domesticity, early city plann...
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| Main Author: |
Lewinnek, Elaine
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| Format: | eBook
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Subjects: |
HISTORY
> United States
> State & Local
> Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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| Online Access: | Click for online access
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