Consumer Culture
Consumer culture during the early 20th century shaped American views and set in place idea’s that drove American society for the first part of the century. An industrial revolution that had begun with the manufacture of cotton and woolen textiles had, by the beginning of the 20th, transformed the production of most everyday goods. From convenience foods to clothing, appliances to automobiles, the enormous output of industrial production led businesses to coordinate methods of distribution and sales and to forge the infrastructure of our consumer culture. Finally with corporate America plowing society with a huge supply of consumer products, a demand needed to be designed. This need for a demand, accompanied with a large male blue/white-collard work force, drove society to create women that consumed and spent the paycheck every week. This new consumption system was enabled by the creation of national homogeneous consumer markets, and the destruction of the traditional local and heterogeneous markets prior to mass production. Before this time of massive expansion of the corporate market, and the more then 3 fold increase of clerical, managerial, and engineering jobs. The problem with this new age flow of funds was that saving,
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Approximate Word count = 1463
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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