Technology as Freedom

  Acknowledgments

 expand sectionIntroduction  Did Electrical Modernization Cause a Social Revolution in the American Home in the 1920s?
 collapse sectionChapter 1  The Limits of Private Electrical Modernization, 1919–1929
 The Perspective of Enterprise
 The Consumer's Perspective
 Appliance Sales and Household Formation
 Dwelling Fitness for Electrical Modernization
 Appendix
 Definitions
 Methodology
 expand sectionChapter 2  The Reform Tradition  Rates and the Failure of Private Electrical Modernization
 expand sectionChapter 3  Homes or Industry?  The Modernization Debate in the 1920s
 expand sectionChapter 4  The New Deal in Electrical Modernization
 expand sectionChapter 5  The New Deal Saves the Home, 1933–1949
 expand sectionChapter 6  Political Paths to Electrical Modernization
 expand sectionChapter 7  The Culmination of the New Deal in Electrical Modernization, 1945–1960

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionSelected Bibliography
 expand sectionIndex

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