 | Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States Subjects: Households -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Family -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- Hist; Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. The late Susan Porter Benson was Director of Women's Studies at the University of Connecticut and the author of Counter Cultures: Saleswoman, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940 . The late David Montgomery was Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and the author of several books, including The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 . |
