Work Ethics Today as Related to America’s Affluent Era of Ye

With the affluence of the roaring '20's, and then the post war '50's, American cultural values of work hard - play hard seem to have been lost. Roosevelt, favoring work relief over welfare, created the WPA. Before the Project was terminated during World War II, it left permanent monuments on the landsca

Perhaps one of the things that most characterize the 1950’s society was the strong element of conservatism and anticommunist feeling. Cars were seen as an indicator of prosperity. Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small towns and helping to create central marketing areas or shopping malls.

As the traditional pyramid of income distribution began to look more like a diamond with the burgeoning middle class, automation increased productivity contributing to rising standards of living. This extended to previously underprivileged parts of the population as well. Changes in education and housing further demonstrated the growth of the middle class. The year 1960 marked the first time in United States history that a majority of students actually graduated from high school; moreover, aided by the GI Bill, college populations increased. Owning a home became a tangible reality for more Americans, as the availability of housing increased and veterans could secure low-interest mortgages. By 1960, 25% of all housing available had been built in the prior decade.

The dehumanized process of automation compels blue-collar workers (rightly so) to fear the loss their jobs to machinery and robots. White-collar professionals, on the other hand, profiting from automation, suffer from homogenized work environments and ethics. In an iconoclastic conclusion, The New Deal may not be viewed as a revolution. It did not bring about radical change conducive to ending the Great Depression. It did, however, transform American presumption and alter the relationship between government and business. These relationships, becoming increasingly dependant upon one another even through the affluence of the 1950’s, must be supported to necessitate poverty, middle class, and The Affluent.

However, job growth largely benefited college graduates, not blue-collar workers or skilled laborers. Our abundant industrial and technical capacity was spent in the production and distribution of luxury goods and gadgets (what economists and sociologists call "unproductive" goods and services). These objective tendencies became obvious in the trend of the economy. Because of the high degree of su

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