Nation of Realtors - A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey M. Hornstein Klappentext A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America. Zusammenfassung A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey M Hornstein, Jeffrey M. Hornstein
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2005
• EAN: 9780822335283
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3528-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Radical Perspectives; Radical Perspectives
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches