Household Accounts : : Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States / / Susan Porter Benson.
With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, 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 arg...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Household Accounts and Its Preparation
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. “Living on the Margin”
- 2. “Cooperative Conflict”
- 3. The Mutuality of Shared Spaces
- 4. What Goes ’Round, Comes ’Round
- 5. The Family Economy in the Marketplace
- Class, Gender, and Reciprocity
- Notes
- Index