Kentucky Countryside in Transition : A Streetcar Suburb and the Origins of Middle-Class Louisville, 1850-1910 /

"This book studies the microcosm of Louisville and its surrounding rural counties and the intersection of two characteristics associated with the formation of the middle class: suburban residence and white-collar employment. In turn-of-the-century Kentucky, a number of families acquired homes a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bower, Stephanie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class.
White collar workers.
Suburbs.
Social conditions.
Social change.
Rural-urban migration.
Rural conditions.
Middle class.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Travailleurs > Kentucky > Louisville > Histoire.
Cols blancs > Kentucky > Louisville > Histoire.
Banlieues > Kentucky > Louisville > Histoire.
Rural-urban migration > Kentucky > Louisville Region > History.
Social change > Kentucky > Louisville > History.
Working class > Kentucky > Louisville > History.
White collar workers > Kentucky > Louisville > History.
Suburbs > Kentucky > Louisville > History.
Middle class > Kentucky > Louisville > History.
Kentucky > Louisville Region.
Kentucky > Louisville.
Louisville Region (Ky.) > Economic conditions.
Louisville Region (Ky.) > Rural conditions.
Cherokee Triangle (Louisville, Ky.) > Social conditions.
Louisville (Ky.) > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Neighborhood as Destination
  • Methodology
  • The City, 1850
  • The Countryside, 1850
  • Transition to the City, 1880
  • Transition within the City, 1880
  • A Role of Their Own
  • In Residence, 1910
  • Conclusion: The Shape and Shaping of the Middle Class
  • Appendix 1: Age Cohorts of the Forty-Two Cherokee Triangle Families, 1910
  • Appendix 2: Thirty-Year-Old Cohort of Homeowners, 1910
  • Appendix 3: Family Charts
  • Family Supplements.

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