HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Google Glass, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Mass Production
24 Apr 2016
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Mass production, mass consumption, & mass culture in the progressive era. Progressive era was not just a time of political changes; it was also a time of economic & cultural changes. Nativists hoped that mass culture would americanize the immigrant working-class. Hardly a competent workman can be found who dos not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace . Henry ford & the moving assembly line . First person to use automated conveyor-belt to assemble things. Where all was darkness, now is light the radio by 1930, roughly 53% of working-class households owned at least 1 radio. Penny arcades & later nickelodeons were almost exclusively found in working-class & immigrant neighborhoods. Middle-class people tended to go to the theater or watch vaudeville performances.
