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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Joseph C. Bigott. From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869–1929. (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 261. $40.00.
Joseph C. Bigott stresses the widespread character of homeownership among immigrant working-class families in Chicago and other U.S. industrial cities and draws out the implications of this phenomenon for the worlds these people created for themselves. He begins by sketching patterns in working-class housing between 1830 and 1930. At the center of the lumber industry in the late nineteenth century, Chicago developers were well placed to exploit a series of technical innovations that allowed them to construct cheap "workingmen's cottages" in the neighborhoods ringing the central business district and in the outlying industrial suburbs. By 1889 Chicago's new working-class housing was increasingly "ready-made." In the World War I era and the 1920s, greater prosperity allowed a new generation of developers, some of them drawn from ethnic working-class communities, to market a range of roomier and better-appointed "modern" designs, including the thousands of bungalows for which Chicago became famous.	1
Bigott describes the late nineteenth-century formation of Hammond, Indiana, a preserve of skilled German workers and their small business allies, as a basis for opposition to large-scale corporate capitalism until the cataclysmic defeat of the 1894 Pullman boycott, at which point the town came under greater corporate control. His chapter on the evolution of Chicago's Polish communities and their housing stock from the 1880s through the 1930s provides the only substantial discussion of big-city neighborhoods. Bigott delineates two fairly distinct generations of Polish homeowners and in the process describes a kind of "Americanization" through geographic mobility to the city's outer reaches and through social mobility in the form of better housing alternatives.	. . .

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