Technology as Freedom by Ronald C Tobey

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Technology as Freedom by Ronald C Tobey

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Zusammenfassung

Before 1930, the domestic market in the USA for electrical appliances was segemented, but New Deal policies created a true mass market. This text tells how the New Deal and the dramatic change of electric modernization helped to reshape American homelife.

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Technology as Freedom by Ronald C Tobey

Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to reform domestic labor, raise family health, and build family assets. New Deal incentives led to nearly fifty percent of Title I National Housing Act loans being used to buy electric refrigerators in the 1930s. New Deal policies ultimately created the mass commodity culture of home-owning families that typified the conservative 1950s.

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Ronald C. Tobey is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.
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ISBN 13 9780520204218
ISBN 10 0520204212
Titel Technology as Freedom
Autor Ronald C Tobey
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Verlag University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr 1997-01-16
Seitenanzahl 367
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