SOCIOL 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cookie Cutter, Great Compression, Gilded Age
31 Oct 2017
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Does not consider happiness, clean air, low crime, health, leisure time. There are stressors because there is a big consequence of losing. Houstons gdp is going to come up but doesn"t mean flourishing. Everything looks great on the outside but when look deeper you see the poverty. Robber barons: factory owners were called this when people wanted to insult them from their elite wealth. Huge mansions and worker tenants got very bad homes. Workers had very low bargaining power minimum wage) Lack of unions and the government intervention. Lack of options: viewed as replaceable, deskilling. Lack of social welfare like unemployment insurance, social security, food stamps ect (economic gun to the head) Cookie cutter suburban houses (rise of suburbia) Highways are built cars become accessible to middle class. Want to living the american dream, and a lot more people had opportunities. Median household income doubled from 1929 to 1950. Top 10 percent income a little less than in 1920s.
