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Household accounts : working-class family economies in the interwar United States /

"Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of differing races and ethnicities, she argues that working-class families of the time were not on th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Benson, Susan Porter, 1943-2005
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Living on the margin" : working-class marriages and family survival strategies
  • "Cooperative conflict" : gender, generation, and consumption in working-class families
  • The mutuality of shared spaces
  • What goes 'round, comes 'round : working-class reciprocity
  • The family economy in the marketplace.