Building a social contract : modern workers' houses in early twentieth-century Detroit /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2023.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781439923931 1439923930 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.