HIST206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Asian Americans, Personal Grooming, The Flapper
12 Oct 2017
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Electricity: mass production (more choices, models, etc. , new products on the market, fans, sewing machines, lamps, vacuums, toasters, washer machines. Labor saving devices and some extend amount of time people can stay up with their families (due to lights: radios: can connect to mass american culture. Automobile industry: henry ford: dearborn, michigan, model t (1908) - 1st mass produced vehicle, using assembly lines, a lot of people who were middle class purchasing, changes the way people interact, move. Source of leisure --> participate in auto camping; vacationing and experiencing. America; going on drives with family: gas stations, garages --> major new industries launched by rise of automobile, construction, lumber --> people can live further from where they work (helps the housing market) Urban growth in 1920s: people give up agricultural ways of life to search for paid labor in urban cities.
