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Building a social contract : modern workers' houses in early twentieth-century Detroit
Title
Building a social contract : modern workers' houses in early twentieth-century Detroit / Michael McCulloch.
ISBN
9781439923917
1439923914
9781439923924
1439923922
9781439923931
Publication
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Explores developments in Detroit's early twentieth-century workers' housing as a significant moment in global architectural history. Argues that the city's workers and employers negotiated an implicit social contract in which the work of mass production was rewarded with access to modern housing"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Modern workers' houses in early 20th-century Detroit
Other formats
Online version: McCulloch, Michael, 1979- Building a social contract Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 18, 2023
Series
Urban life, landscape, and policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Migration. Passages: Moving to and through houses in an industrial city
American houses: architecture of the melting pot project
Part II: Modernization. Forms of modern housing: alternative models from Dessau to Detroit
Modern housebuilding: policy, products, and labor
Detroit's other industry: real estate and the culture of elusive security
Better lives: making do in modern houses
Part III: Struggle. Glass and stones: materials of race and neighborhood violence
Social contract in crisis: welfare, eviction, and activism in the Depression.
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