Technology as freedom [Ressource électronique] : the New Deal and the electrical modernization of the American home / Ronald C. Tobey, Monographie électronique
Language: anglais.Publication : Berkeley (CA) : University of California Press, [200?], cop. 1996Dewey: 333.7932097309043, 21Contents note: Introduction: Did Electrical Modernization Cause a Social Revolution in the American Home in the 1920s? 1. The Limits of Private Electrical Modernization, 1919-1929 2. The Reform Tradition: Rates and the Failure of Private Electrical Modernization 3. Homes or Industry? The Modernization Debate in the 1920s 4. The New Deal in Electrical Modernization 5. The New Deal Saves the Home, 1933-1949 6. Political Paths of Electrical Modernization 7. The Culmination of the New Deal in Electrical Modernization, 1945-1960 Abstract: Technology as Freedom tells how the New Deal brought electrical modernization to the mass of American households and how that dramatic change helped to reshape American home life. Contrary to the claims of a generation of historians that the nation's private free-market economy and the demands of society's lower orders produced domestic electrification, Ronald Tobey argues that this modernization of the American home was the direct culmination of Franklin Roosevelt's progressive views and was, indeed, part of his New Deal strategy to protect Americans from the harshest effects of the free-market economy.Bibliography: Bibliogr.. Index.Subject - Topical Name: 210998 -- 212247Électrification, États-Unis, 20e siècle | 210998 -- 212184Électrification, Aspect social, États-Unis | Électrification rurale -- États-Unis 20e siècle | Électrification rurale -- Aspect social États-Unis | New Deal Online Resources:Click here to access online| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Introduction: Did Electrical Modernization Cause a Social Revolution in the American Home in the 1920s? 1. The Limits of Private Electrical Modernization, 1919-1929 2. The Reform Tradition: Rates and the Failure of Private Electrical Modernization 3. Homes or Industry? The Modernization Debate in the 1920s 4. The New Deal in Electrical Modernization 5. The New Deal Saves the Home, 1933-1949 6. Political Paths of Electrical Modernization 7. The Culmination of the New Deal in Electrical Modernization, 1945-1960
Technology as Freedom tells how the New Deal brought electrical modernization to the mass of American households and how that dramatic change helped to reshape American home life. Contrary to the claims of a generation of historians that the nation's private free-market economy and the demands of society's lower orders produced domestic electrification, Ronald Tobey argues that this modernization of the American home was the direct culmination of Franklin Roosevelt's progressive views and was, indeed, part of his New Deal strategy to protect Americans from the harshest effects of the free-market economy
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