HIST 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Evangelicalism, Greatest Generation, Enclosure
19 Oct 2018
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Industrial america was built by and for the urban north, rural southerners made up much of the labour, management and consumers in the postwar service sector. A historical view of walmart exposes an enclosure movement that has put on the market, every day low prices, the work called care, service or reproductive labour. Walmart functions as the heir to the ford motor. Company (mass production that gives the concept of. Fordism refers to the mass production techniques, management practices and wage scale pioneered by. Walmart arose in the sunbelt, that blended south and west, shaped by federal subsidy under the cold war defence economy. The company began in the 1940s as a chain of five-and- dimes run by a member of the "greatest generation" It began turning into discount stores in 1962 as white women started entering the waged labour force in significant numbers. It went public as the postwar boom ended in the 1970s.
