The 1920's were a time for a change in New Jersey. Its location made it a prominent part of the country with some of the greatest manufactures coming through the Garden State. Very much like the rest of The United States, New Jersey began the 1920's in a state of prosperity. This was a time for population and employment increase. After the War was over factory production greatly decreased but the production lines remained in somewhat high production. The 1920's brought on a completely new era of transportation and movement of goods and people. For the City of Elizabeth NJ, the 1920's brought on an era of manufacturing of goods that would help the city develop for years to come. For one, cars became easily affordable and readily available for …show more content…
After World War II, American society and politics brought about new understandings of nature and wilderness by opening the eyes of Americans to the environment around them. Mainstream environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club and its leaders mobilized the public in favor of their cause by using tactics that touched on the hearts of the American people, making the environment seem fragile and beautiful. Americans opened their eyes to what taking care of their environment really meant. The expanding post–World War II economy raised awareness about the environmental costs of economic progress, but it also led increasingly wealthy Americans to persist upon a better quality of life. Since the demand for a safer, cleaner, and more beautiful environment could not be easily pleased by a free market, environmentalists had to take political action to protect the earth. This post war environment brought on new understandings of nature and wilderness by opening up the truth of their economy and the danger it caused their environment. The manufacturing era changed society and its interaction with the environment. It gradually increased the use of natural resources and the rate of progress of new products and processes. This era has left everlasting changes in the way our society works today. Apart from changing American society and the way we live, it has also led to the depletion of sources, pollution, and alteration of natural habitats. When Americans realized what manufacturing was doing to the environment they roared for change. This led to the intervention of the Environmental Protection Agency. Later on in history, the EPA put in place rules and regulations that eventually helped the decline of the manufacturing industry. The EPA has rules that have only stifled the growth of manufacturing and job development. In the Industry Week Magazine there is an article that speaks on the
The boom of mining iron ore, coal, and limestone and producing iron in north Alabama during the 1800s had a tremendous impact on Alabama’s economy of the time. It provided opportunity for the expansion of the railroad and work. Cities were born around this industrial boom. All of these things encouraged economic growth in Alabama during this time.
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In the interwar years, FMC twice changed course in Europe. In 1928 it introduced a plan for regional integration. This plan started with the creation of a giant new plant at Dagenham in England. The Dagenham plants main focus was support and supply of materials to other European plants in order to limit the need for American export of goods, and instead integrate the European Ford plants in manufacturing, supply, and ease the trade across European borders. Using the Dagenham plant as headquarters for European operations proved extremely difficult. This was due to the tariff barriers within Europe and the pressure from countries insisting to keep Ford manufacturing locally if it wished to sell in their national markets. “The result was a retreat from planned regional integration to fragmented and nationally oriented markets” (Bonin et al., p. 16). These changes in course also affected the approach Ford made towards its production practices, and for the first time,...
The 1920’s were a seminal moment in our nation’s history. So many key events and people of the time shaped the future of our country. This period of growth, prosperity and social change would not be realized again until the post-WW II years. The enduring impact of the automobile on our nation and the professional, personal and social mobility that it provides, exists today.
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After World War I, economy shot up causing historians to call the 1920s the second industrial revolution.' The economy of the 1920's was a key change as it brought about new mass production, mass consumption, and set the stage for the ever-looming Great Depression. The 1920's saw a great boom in mass production which allowed for cheaper prices of technology products. This decade was marked by an enormous expansion of consumer credit, where Americans were used to finance purchases of new products such as the growing popularity of cars and radios, which were created by the mass production. The automobile, movie, radio, and chemical industries skyrocketed during this decade-one of the most important was the automobile industry. As mass-produced automobiles were churned in by Henry Ford, about 1.9 million cars had been sold by the end of 1929. The economy of the automobile society had a great impact on not only business, but also society. Henry Ford, who had revolutionized the new workers day and the concept of mass-production, had indirectly affected how Americans lived and behaved. Cars promoted other markets to grow, such as steel, rubber, glass, and petroleum. It also promoted urban and suburban growth, where a new class of Americans was rising. Now, citizens could drive to new places, meet new people, act differently etc The speed with which the products of mass production diffused through America was astonishing: not just automobiles but also washing machines, refrigerators, electric irons, electric and gas stoves--a whole host of inventions and technologies that greatly transformed that part of economic life that takes place within the household. However, this changing and rising American economy cause called one major consequence. For one of the major consequences of mass production was the building-up of the stock of capital goods for within-the-home production. And this of course, was the biggest key change because it seemed like the rising stock market and industry of the 1920s would stay forever. This rising stock market led to the Great Depression a downward spiral of economic depression.
... the world. From humble origins in the late nineteenth century, the auto industry grew explosively in the early and mid-twentieth century’s, scattered and decentralized, and reconstituted its work force. The impact on everyday life, from where people live to what kind of work they did cannot be underestimated. The hard work people put in to making the assembly line helped almost all companies succeed in making more cars. Just imagine if the assembly line was not created. It would take years to make a car and the cost of a car would be very expensive. Those changes were especially visible in Detroit which was the capitol of the auto industry automobile nation. The automobile industry would not be where it was today if it wasn’t for all the hard work people put in it in the 1900’s. Ford, Chrysler and general motors’ help create what we call today as the automobile.
The three chapters assigned to be read out of Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market, a novel by Susan Strasser, outline the consumer culture of the United States around the end of 19th century, following the conclusion of the civil war. The chapters work chronologically and describe the rapid evolution of companies’ production, advertising and branding techniques. The reading also hits some of the main goods introduced at the time, most of which we still use today, and the troubles that companies faced convincing the public to invest in (purchase) their product for the first time. The problem with introducing thousands of products that no one had ever heard of? Most people will naturally pick the safe bet when spending
During the Great Depression, every work place was hit hard and many were out of work. The demand for vehicles declined, and the automotive industry took a hit. Once the Second World War began, the automotive industry was given a push in the right direction, and their vehicle production flourished...
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