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John Modell, Tamara K. Hareven, Urbanization and the Malleable Household: An Examination of Boarding and Lodging in American Families, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 35, No. 3, Special Section: New Social History of the Family (Aug., 1973), pp. 467-479
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