HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Frederick Winslow Taylor, American Movie, Mass Production
5 Apr 2016
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The age of the mass: the progressive era was not just a ime of poliical changes. It was also a ime of economic and cultural changes. Mass producion led to more afordable consumer goods. Management, 1911: henry ford and the moving assembly line , the five dollar day, the model-t. Created a new era of buying and consuming goods paricularly in the household. As electriicaion expands, it"s because of all the work that the working class is doing. Ater 8 hours a day, you"ll have light in your home you can go home and read, and be with the family. You earned the ability to spend ime with your family ater your work. What drove people to these movies was because they were about sex. Did mass culture help assimilate immigrants: the high rates of movie atendance, as well as sales of radios and consumer goods might suggest that as immigrants paricipate in consumer culture, they increasingly became.
