Jeffrey M Hornstein

A Nation of Realtors(r)

A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335283
• ISBN-10: 082233528X
• Artikelnr.: 21626744

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey M. Hornstein is District Organizing Coordinator for Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union in Philadelphia. He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. "Doing Something Definite": The Emergence of Real Estate Brokerage as a
Career, 1883–1908 12
2. Real Estate Brokerage and the Formation of a (National) Middle-Class
Consciousness, 1907–1915 28
3. Character, Competency, and Real (Estate) Professionalism, 1915–1921 53
4. Applied Realology: Administration, Education, and the Consequences of
Partial Professionalization in the 1920s 84
5. The Realtors Go to Washington: Enshrining Homeownership in the 1930s 118
6. "Rosie the Realtor" and the Re-Gendering of Real Estate Brokerage,
1938–1950 156
7. Domesticity, Gender, and Real Estate in the 1950s and Beyond 185
Conclusion 201
Appendix 207
Notes 209
Bibliography 233
Index 247