Technology as Freedom

The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home

Ronald C. Tobey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-32373-5 (ISBN)

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Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to reform domestic labor, raise family health, and build family assets. New Deal incentives led to nearly fifty percent of Title I National Housing Act loans being used to buy electric refrigerators in the 1930s. New Deal policies ultimately created the mass commodity culture of home-owning families that typified the conservative 1950s.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Ronald C. Tobey is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.06.2022
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-32373-4 / 0520323734
ISBN-13	978-0-520-32373-5 / 9780520323735
Zustand	Neuware