Oh, just after WW2? When there were too many women folk in regular employment and folks needed a way to get them back in the homemaking more babies to fight future wars? Babies that could put in their “time” with the military for a promise of a middle class life? What’s a few years of doing the dirty work of the empire if it gets your that middle class dream?
Or did many women just go back into the informal labour market so they could do domestic labour for their own homes or others? Idk where you grew up I always saw women working - childcare, cleaning ladies, etc.
Where did this prosperity come from? Oh, from producing things other countries couldn’t? And once other countries could it kind of all broke down? Hey, those people who make your cheap goods want a better quality of life too…
Capitalism is evil, no doubt - but the post war boom american dream is propaganda, comrades. It makes the individual an accomplice to capitalism, for a few more crumbs than those who don’t fall in line.
People watched too many movies where everyone had a house and family. This is all upper class POV. This hasn’t changed. You can still do that, if your dad gets you a high position in his company.
So uh…when was this normal? And where?
Oh, just after WW2? When there were too many women folk in regular employment and folks needed a way to get them back in the homemaking more babies to fight future wars? Babies that could put in their “time” with the military for a promise of a middle class life? What’s a few years of doing the dirty work of the empire if it gets your that middle class dream?
Or did many women just go back into the informal labour market so they could do domestic labour for their own homes or others? Idk where you grew up I always saw women working - childcare, cleaning ladies, etc.
Where did this prosperity come from? Oh, from producing things other countries couldn’t? And once other countries could it kind of all broke down? Hey, those people who make your cheap goods want a better quality of life too…
Capitalism is evil, no doubt - but the post war boom american dream is propaganda, comrades. It makes the individual an accomplice to capitalism, for a few more crumbs than those who don’t fall in line.
People watched too many movies where everyone had a house and family. This is all upper class POV. This hasn’t changed. You can still do that, if your dad gets you a high position in his company.