Date of Award
12-2010
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Roberta Wollons
Second Advisor
Julie Winch
Third Advisor
James Green
Abstract
This study looks at the rise of household technologies available in Salem, Massachusetts from 1890-1914, and examines how these technologies, from importation to sale and consumption, defined class and class aspirations in the city and reflect transformations seen throughout the United States during the turn of the twentieth century. So that we can best understand how technology was used within individual homes, this research centers almost exclusively around four families whose businesses, and residences are dissected to better identify how their consumption of goods and technology created new opportunities, as well as problems, for household members and domestic servants employed by them to use new objects.
Recommended Citation
Stephens, Candace, "Class, Class Mobility, and the Consumption of Household Technology in Salem, Massachusetts, 1890-1914" (2010). Graduate Masters Theses. 25.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/25