Building a social contract [electronic resource] : modern workers' houses in early twentieth-century Detroit / Michael McCulloch
- Author
- McCulloch, Michael, 1979-
- Published
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023.
- Physical Description
- pages cm.
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- 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.
- Summary
- "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 to modern housing"--
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- ISBN
- 9781439923917 (cloth)
9781439923924 (paperback)
9781439923931 (pdf) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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