The making of the modern British home : the suburban semi and family life between the wars

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The making of the modern British home : the suburban semi and family life between the wars

Peter Scott

Oxford University Press, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-264) and index

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The Making of the Modern British Home explores the impact of the modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during the 1920s and 1930s - focusing primarily on working-class households who moved from cramped inner-urban accommodation to new suburban council or owner-occupied housing estates. Migration to suburbia is shown to have initiated a dramatic transformation in lifestyles - from a `traditional' working-class mode of living, based around long-established tightly-knit urban communities, to a recognisably `modern' mode, centred around the home, the nuclear family, and building a better future for the next generation. This process had far-reaching impacts on family life, entailing a change in household priorities to meet the higher costs of suburban living, which in turn impacted on many aspects of household behaviour, including family size. This volume also constitutes a general history of the development of both owner-occupied and municipal suburban housing estates in interwar Britain, including the evolution of housing policy; the housing development process; housing and estate design, lay-outs, and architectural features; marketing owner-occupation and consumer durables to a mass market; furnishing the new suburban home; making ends meet; suburban gardens; social filtering and conflict on the new estates; and problems of 'mis-selling' and 'Jerry building'. Peter Scott integrates the social history of the interwar suburbs with their economic, business, marketing, and architectural/planning histories, demonstrating how these elements interacted to produce a new model of working-class lifestyles and 'respectability' which marked a fundamental break with pre-1914 working-class urban communities.

目次

  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations and a note on currency
  • 1. The new suburban world
  • 2. The road to 'homes fit for heroes'
  • 3. Municipal suburbia
  • 4. Developing owner-occupied suburbia
  • 5. Marketing owner-occupation to the masses
  • 6. Life in owner-occupied suburbia
  • 7. Equipping the suburban home
  • 8. The suburban garden
  • 9. Visible and invisible walls: social differentiation and conflict in interwar suburbia
  • 10. A crisis averted by war? Mis-selling, consumer protest, and the Borders case
  • 11. The legacy of the interwar semi
  • Appendix: A note on sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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