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Household Accounts - Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States (Hardcover)
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Household Accounts - Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States (Hardcover)
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With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail,
Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of
working-class families in the United States between the two world
wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of
differing races and ethnicities, she argues that working-class
families of the time were not on the verge of entering the middle
class and embracing mass culture. Rather, she contends that during
the interwar period such families lived in a context of scarcity
and limited resources, not plenty. Their consumption, Benson
argues, revolved around hard choices about basic needs and provided
therapeutic satisfactions only secondarily, if at all. Household
Accounts is rich with details Benson gathered from previously
untapped sources, particularly interviews with women wage earners
conducted by field agents of the Women's Bureau of the Department
of Labor. She provides a vivid picture of a working-class culture
of family consumption: how working-class families negotiated funds;
how they made qualitative decisions about what they wanted; how
they determined financial strategies and individual goals; and how,
in short, families made ends meet during this period. Topics
usually central to the histories of consumption he development of
mass consumer culture, the hegemony of middle-class versions of
consumption, and the expanded offerings of the marketplace
contributed to but did not control the lives of working-class
people. Ultimately, Household Accounts seriously calls into
question the usual narrative of a rising and inclusive tide of
twentieth-century consumption."
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