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A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Post War America: An Interview with Lizabeth Cohen

机译：消费者共和国：战后美国的消费政治：Lizabeth Cohen访谈

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LP: Perhaps we could begin by having you describe your earlier work,and how it led you in this new direction.LC: As you know, my first book, Making A New Deal, was a book aboutworkers in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. In that book I dealt withmany issues. But I was particularly interested in the way that mass consumption,the consumer society, affected working-class Americans, particularlyduring the 1920s, and how that carried over into their politicsand political actions of the 1930s. One of my findings for the inter-warperiod was that despite what some stereotypes of the era suggest, workingclasspeople were not as integrated into the consumer culture as we thinkthey were. Particularly in the 1920s when installment buying and massconsumption and chain stores and so forth supposedly took off, workingclasspeople in many cases really weren't in an economic position to takeadvantage of much of that. They were living from payday to payday. Theywere laid off a lot of the time. They were living on the credit they got fromthe small corner grocer. I didn't find workers participating in this massconsumer society as expected. Then the Depression came in the thirties,and so I ended my book thinking that it was really going to be in the postwarperiod that those questions about the impact of a mass consumption societyand workers' potential participation in a middle-class lifestyle would be anissue. So I ended feeling that those questions that we had assumed were going to be relevant to the inter-war period would probably be morerelevant to the postwar period.
机译：LP：也许我们可以从介绍您的早期工作以及如何将您引向新方向开始。LC：您知道，我的第一本书《做一个新政》是一本关于1920年代和1930年代芝加哥工人的书。 。在那本书中，我谈到了许多问题。但是我对大众消费，消费者社会，尤其是在1920年代影响工人阶级的美国人的方式以及1930年代的政治和政治行动如何影响特别感兴趣。我对跨时代的发现之一是，尽管那个时代的一些陈规定型观念表明，工人阶级的人们并没有像我们认为的那样融入消费文化。尤其是在1920年代，分期付款购买，大众消费品和连锁商店等应运而生时，在许多情况下，工人阶级实际上并没有从经济上占据优势。他们从发薪日到发薪日生活。他们被解雇了很多时间。他们靠小杂货店的信誉来生活。我没有发现工人参加这个大众消费社会。然后大萧条到了30年代，所以我结束了我的书，认为那真的是在战后时期，那些关于大众消费社会的影响以及工人可能参与中产阶级生活方式的问题是个问题。因此，我结束了感觉，我们假设的那些与战间时期有关的问题可能与战后时期更为相关。

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