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A nation of realtors : a cultural history of the twentieth-century American middle class /

A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hornstein, Jeffrey M., 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Radical perspectives.
E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Doing something definite": the emergence of real estate brokerage as a career, 1883-1908
  • Real estate brokerage and the formation of a (national) middle-class consciousness, 1907-1915
  • Character, competency, and real (estate) professionalism, 1915-1921
  • Applied realology: administration, education, and the consequences of partial professionalization in the 1920s
  • The realtors go to Washington: enshrining homeownership in the 1930s
  • "Rosie the realtor" and the re-gendering of real estate brokerage, 1938-1950
  • Domesticity, gender, and real estate in the 1950s and beyond.