Hornstein / Walkowitz A Nation of Realtors®

A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8660-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: Radical Perspectives

A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hornstein, Jeffrey M.

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Immobilienwirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. "Doing Something Definite": The Emergence of Real Estate Brokerage as a Career, 1883–1908 12

2. Real Estate Brokerage and the Formation of a (National) Middle-Class Consciousness, 1907–1915 28

3. Character, Competency, and Real (Estate) Professionalism, 1915–1921 53

4. Applied Realology: Administration, Education, and the Consequences of Partial Professionalization in the 1920s 84

5. The Realtors Go to Washington: Enshrining Homeownership in the 1930s 118

6. "Rosie the Realtor" and the Re-Gendering of Real Estate Brokerage, 1938–1950 156

7. Domesticity, Gender, and Real Estate in the 1950s and Beyond 185

Conclusion 201

Appendix 207

Notes 209

Bibliography 233

Index 247

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey M. Hornstein is District Organizing Coordinator for Local 32BJ of the Service
Employees International Union in Philadelphia. He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland.