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This 3 page paper explores the thesis that unemployment hit Americans harder in the 1950s than it did in previous decades because of the radical changes that had been made in regard to material culture. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in the United States. The Great Depression was long over. People had moved from their largely agrarian lifestyles into the cities and found work in the factories and
other pursuits. Life was good. There were, however, both lows and highs in this decade. At a couple of different points, in fact, unemployment soared. The
thesis can be presented that because the material lives that people of the 1950s had come to expect had changed so radically in a very short period of time, unemployment
hit these people much harder than it did previous generations. There were, in fact, many changes in the lives of those that
lived in the 1950s. Families were having children and buying houses as homes for those children. They set their eyes of bigger and better houses than their parents
had procured (Cullip). They turned to credit to finance those houses. Those that couldnt afford to buy a big nice house rented one instead but the end result
was the same, much of their paychecks were being spent on keeping a roof over their heads. Where in generations past extended families lived under the same roof and
shared the costs inherent in it, American families of the 1950s were setting out to a large degree on their own. Families were no longer comprised of Mom, Dad,
Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts, Uncles and assorted children. Now they were comprised of Mom, Dad, and children. Still the cost of the house had to be paid and so
too did the electricity to power it and the city water that was piped into it. Unfortunately, houses and the mortgages
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