1st Edition
The Family in America Searching for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age
By Allan C. Carlson
Copyright 2003
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
205 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Family in America offers a fresh interpretation of American social history, emphasizing the vital role of the family and household autonomy and threats to both imposed by industrial organization and the state. Allan Carlson shows that the United States, rather than being "born modern" as a progressive consumerist society, was in fact founded as an agrarian society composed of independent... Read more
Transaction Introduction, Foreword, I The American Constitutional Arrangement, II The Family Wage Experiment, III The Suburban Strategy, IV The Religious Possibility, V The Cold War Family, VI The Professional Temptation, VII An Elusive Harmony, Index
Biography
Robert McC. Adams
