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- Conglomerates
- a major corporation that includes many smaller companies in unrelated industries
- ITT, General Electric, Xerox
- examples of conglomerates
- Franchise
- multiple locations
- The Organization Man
- written by Whyte..about how working in industries brought good money, but took away individuality...belongingness was when companies paid their employees for using teamwork and being loyal
- Baby Boom
- a lot of babies were made
- Dr Jonas Salk
- created a vaccine to fight polio
- Dr Benjamin Spock
- wrote "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care"..told parents not to spank or scold their babies and to hold meetings where they express themselves. Tried to get government to pay mothers to stay home
- Labor Saving Devices
- dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, power lawn mowers
- Automania
- gov made more roads, ppl bought more cars
- Interstate Highway Act
- passed by eisenhower, allowed 41k miles of road
- Consumerism
- buying stuff
- Planned Obsolescence
- marketing strategy of making new models every year so people would throw out their old ones and buy the new ones to stay up to date