Jeffrey M Hornstein

A Nation of Realtors(R)

A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class

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Produktbeschreibung

""A Nation of Realtors(R)" will be an instant classic. It is a brilliant window into the cultural politics of the real estate industry, the best study we have of Realtors, and an incisive analysis of the making of the modern American middle class. Jeffrey M. Hornstein's writing sparkles with an unusually sophisticated and accessible theoretical engagement of his archival sources."---Daniel J. Walkowitz, coeditor of "Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 162mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335405
• ISBN-10: 0822335409
• Artikelnr.: 22275885

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