Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
Contents:
"Doing something definite": the emergence of real estate brokerage as a career, 1883-1908 -- Real estate brokerage and the formation of a (national) middle-class consciousness, 1907-1915 -- Character, competency, and real (estate) professionalism, 1915-1921 -- Applied realology: administration, education, and the consequences of partial professionalization in the 1920s -- The realtors go to Washington: enshrining homeownership in the 1930s -- "Rosie the realtor" and the re-gendering of real estate brokerage, 1938-1950 -- Domesticity, gender, and real estate in the 1950s and beyond.
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