01:512:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Second Industrial Revolution, Welfare Capitalism, Abs-Cbn Cable Channels
8 Nov 2016
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American communities: the movie audience and hollywood: mass culture creates a. Many famous movie stars showed up there: led to automatic machinery, machines could be used by unskilled workers. Samuel l. roxy rothapfel to build a cathedral of the motion picture . Hollywood, california- main production center; scenic, has mountains, ocean. Hollywood dream factory forged together a national community: postwar prosperity and its price. 1: natl assoc of manufacturers & chamber of commerce backed this idea, open shop- no employees could join or be part of a union, large employers set up company unions, closed shops. 2: result of mcnary-haugen bills , higher domestic prices for farm products, calvin coolidge viewed measures as unwarranted federal interference in the economy vetoed the bill, some farmers thrived w/ improved transportation. Wheat, citrus, dairy prospered: disastrous dust storms in the 1930s rolled across the grassless plains, amer coal mines became less important source for energy.
