How the working-class home became modern, 1900-1940

Introduction : Housing and domestic reform from a middle-majority perspective

Headwinds to researching common houses : eleven prevailing themes

Two worlds apart : domestic conditions at the turn of the twentieth century

Modern houses for a new middle class : new standards of living

The dwellings of modern domestic reform : cottages, duplexes, multi-units, and remodeled houses

Domestic life transformed : how the working class became middle-class in housing

Epilogue : response to working-class improvement.