Technology as Freedom |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction Did Electrical Modernization Cause a Social Revolution in the American Home in the 1920s? |
Chapter 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 |
Chapter 2 The Reform Tradition Rates and the Failure of Private Electrical Modernization |
Chapter 3 Homes or Industry? The Modernization Debate in the 1920s |
Chapter 4 The New Deal in Electrical Modernization |
Chapter 5 The New Deal Saves the Home, 1933–1949 |
Chapter 6 Political Paths to Electrical Modernization |
Chapter 7 The Culmination of the New Deal in Electrical Modernization, 1945–1960 |
Notes |
Selected Bibliography |
Index |