America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Season 1 Episode 12 Morals and Manners: Middle-Class Society

Discover how the American middle class was a direct product of industrialization and the new employment categories it created. Investigate the key features of the new middle class lifestyle, encompassing suburban living, consumption, and leisure. Also identify defining middle-class values, from respectability and manners to personal hygiene and the "cult of domesticity."