GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Iranian Revolution, National Labor Relations Act, Consumerism
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20 november 2015-the growth of an international oil economy: the case of the middle east. Development of social security, unions recognized, public work program (infrastructure building to provide jobs -president teddy r) Economies were not going well, started again by war in the 1930/40, many people employed again for war effort. Us/canadian post-world war ii consumerism: the great depression, the wagner act, and world war ii. Expansion of consumerism: the automobile culture one of the conditions created by large corporations (general motors) Fined 10 thousand dollars for introducing and replacing cars. Senator gore and the expansion of the us highway infrastructure (provide funding for highways, automobile culture increase) The us had a densely packed freeway structure: the degradation of rail transport, suburbanization, the shopping mall-first build in minnesota, the oil/war economy-petroleum economy boomed, the need for the energy source expanded. Objectives of us foreign policy in middle east. 2. control of flow and pricing of oil (competition with eu, east asia)
