HIS 315L Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Industrial Revolution, Ernest Hemingway, Scopes Trial
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Industrial expansion, prosperity a new era? : new consumer goods, technological advances. More homes have electricity; more appliances being used. Small electrical appliances: automobile industry = model of consumer goods. Rubber, steal, paint, glass for making a car. Industrial worker hours dropped from 60 to 55 hours a week. Cultural change in prosperous times: leisure revolution . Worker hours dropped from 60 to 55 hours. Broadcast the world series they couldn"t go; later progressed to football. Easier for people to listen to the game if. Dresses were a little shorter: youth rebellion. Parents had less control as cars became more popular: sexual revolution. Usually married the man they had premarital sex with. Birth control was becoming available for the first time; margaret sanger"s movement. Marriage was the only proved state for women: literature; sig contribution. Theme was to write about aspects of being black in.
