A Nation of Realtors ®
The Professionalization of Real Estate Brokerage and the Construction of a New American Middle Class
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12680024 |
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| Authors | Jeffrey M Hornstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 613-619 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Enterprise & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1467-2227 • E-ISSN: 1467-2235 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/es/3.4.613 |
| OpenAlex | W4234249470 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The rise of professional real estate brokerage is an ideal window into the internal dynamics of the cultural transformation of the American middle class in the twentieth century. Emerging as a full-time occupation in the late nineteenth century, real estate brokerage embodied a variety of early twentieth-century cultural, social, business, and economic trends, including the drive to professionalize business, the rapid expansion of white-collar labor and its feminization, the rise of independent contracting as a prominent form of labor relations, and the enormous growth of the home-building and -selling industries. As many scholars have noted, the home became a crucial site of both consumption and middle-class identification in the early twentieth century
Consumption (sociology · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Professionalization · Real estate · Separate spheres · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · American History and Culture · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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