Kentucky countryside in transition
Subtitle: a streetcar suburb and the origins of middle-class Louisville, 1850-1910
By: Stephanie Bower
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781621902003
Subjects: White collar workers; Social change; Suburbs; Economic conditions; Middle class; Social conditions; Rural-urban migration; Working class; Rural conditions; History
Description: "This book studies the microcosm of Louisville and its surrounding rural counties and the intersection of two characteristics associated with the formation of the middle class: suburban residence and white-collar employment. In turn-of-the-century Kentucky, a number of families acquired homes at the end of the Broadway trolley line within an area that came to be known as the Cherokee Triangle (named for Cherokee Park rather than the Native American nation). Bower examines three generations of families who migrated to and lived within the Cherokee Triangle in order to trace the transition of rural farmers and cultivators to city laborers and white-collar workers"--Provided by publishers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Neighborhood as Destination; title: Methodology; title: The City, 1850; title: The Countryside, 1850; title: Transition to the City, 1880; title: Transition within the City, 1880; title: A Role of Their Own; title: In Residence, 1910; title: Conclusion: The Shape and Shaping of the Middle Class; title: Appendix 1: Age Cohorts of the Forty-Two Cherokee Triangle Families, 1910; title: Appendix 2: Thirty-Year-Old Cohort of Homeowners, 1910; title: Appendix 3: Family Charts; title: Family Supplements.