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Building a Social Contract : Modern Workers' Houses in Early-Twentieth Century Detroit

1st ed.

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023 [©2023]

1 online resource (243 pages)

Englisch

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978-1-4399-2393-1

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LOC-SH: Architecture, Domestic ; Cost and standard of living ; Housing ; Social history ; Working class-Dwellings

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Migration -- 1. Passages: Moving to and through Houses in an Industrial City -- 2. American Houses: Architecture of the Melting Pot Project -- Part II: Modernization -- 3. Forms of Modern Housing: Alternative Models from Dessau to Detroit -- 4. Modern Housebuilding: Policy, Products, and Labor -- 5. Detroit's Other Industry: Real Estate and the Culture of Elusive Security -- 6. Better Lives: Making Do in Modern Houses -- Part III: Struggle -- 7. Glass and Stones: Materials of Race and Neighborhood Violence -- 8. Social Contract in Crisis: Welfare, Eviction, and Activism in the Depression -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.