The 1920s were a decade in which the economy became rooted, to
an unprecedented degree, in the production of consumer goods.
Parallel to this shift was a marked change in the nature of
work.
1. What were these new goods becoming available, what accounts
for the high volume in which they were being produced, and what
explains why these new goods were able to find a market among much
of the public?
2. Articulate the relationship between the reorganization of
production relations that characterized the economy of the 1910s
and 1920s, and the increased tendency toward consumer spending.
3. Explain how new attitudes toward spending and leisure shaped
the new consumer economy, as well as how these new attitudes came
about.