Kentucky countryside in transition : a streetcar suburb and the origins of middle-class Louisville, 1850-1910 /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bower, Stephanie (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Louisville (Ky.) > Social conditions. Cherokee Triangle (Louisville, Ky.) > Social conditions. Middle class > Kentucky > Louisville > History. Suburbs > Kentucky > Louisville > History. White collar workers > Kentucky > Louisville > History. Working class > Kentucky > Louisville > History. Social change > Kentucky > Louisville > History. Rural-urban migration > Kentucky > Louisville Region > History. Louisville Region (Ky.) > Rural conditions. Louisville Region (Ky.) > Economic conditions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Neighborhood as Destination
Methodology
The City, 1850
The Countryside, 1850
Transition to the City, 1880
Transition within the City, 1880
A Role of Their Own
In Residence, 1910
Conclusion: The Shape and Shaping of the Middle Class
Appendix 1: Age Cohorts of the Forty-Two Cherokee Triangle Families, 1910
Appendix 2: Thirty-Year-Old Cohort of Homeowners, 1910
Appendix 3: Family Charts
Family Supplements.