Culture's vanities: the paradox of cultural diversity in a globalized world
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In: Labor history, Band 51, Heft 3, S. 429-453
ISSN: 1469-9702
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 788-815
ISSN: 1467-2235
After World War II, the United States moved into what historians are now recognizing as a full-blown consumer society. Consumer society carried with it vast cultural changes, including shifts in fundamental values. Not least important were shifts in the practices of thrift, as seen in how Americans regarded personal savings and debt. Traditionally seen as opposites, those two economic behaviors became intertwined in the 1950s, as Americans continued to save, not to accumulate wealth but to spend and often even as they took on consumer debt. Thus, the 1950s were a tipping point between industrial capitalism and consumer capitalism.
In: Diplomatic history, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 189-192
ISSN: 1467-7709
In: Diplomatic history, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 189-192
ISSN: 0145-2096
In: Diplomatic history, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 79-99
ISSN: 1467-7709
In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 391-412
ISSN: 1468-0130
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 74, Heft 3, S. 166
ISSN: 2327-7793
In: Labor history, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 467-497
ISSN: 1469-9702