Technology as Freedom
Subtitle: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 16, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780520204218
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Impact of science & technology on society; Social history; Sociology, Social Studies; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Natural Resources; Electric Power Resources Management; U.S. History - Depression And New Deal (1929-1938); Nature; Technology & Industrial Arts; History: American; USA; Electronics - General; History / General; Electrification; United States; 20th century; History; Rural electrification; Social Aspects
Description: 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.