HIST 289R Study Guide - Meat Packing Industry, Conditionality, Consumerism
26 Sep 2014
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Industrialization, the gilded age, and consumerism9/3/13 9:29 am. Gilded age mark twain: golden cover, illusion, explosion of millionaires from 300 around the civil war to 4,000 by 1890, majority of people are not rich very unskilled. You don"t have the space to make your own clothes and grow your own food: tenements for migrant workers awful conditions. Producing the consumer goods and purchasing them because they have to. Average working day was 17 hours in the steel mill, average pay was - a day: children and wives had to work too. Bored and socially alienated: this new consumer culture did provide a new please. Historians believed they were just being frivolous by spending their money on consumer goods. But they"d actually use their purchases to show their dignity and equality. Particularly true with the new immigrant groups: to become an american you need to look like an american fashion and make up, your consumer patterns turn you into an.
