Postwar affluence shifted class structures from embedded tiers to consumption-based forms

Evidence

The preeminent historical instance of the correlation between social expansion and the individuation of life contents and forms is provided by the emergence of the cash economy. The primitive economy engenders small, relatively insular economic circles; the difficulty of transportation alone restricts their perimeters, and it accordingly prevents the technology of the primitive economy from arriving at a significant degree of the differentiation and individualization of activities. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 663 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hall linked post-war industrial decline to transformed consumer culture and new symbolic meanings; Postwar affluence and mass culture threatened Labour’s class base; Postwar affluence marked a transition to post-industrial class structures, not classlessness (+8 more)

Related

• Postwar affluence marked a transition to post-industrial class structures, not classlessness (similarity 0.85)
• Postwar affluence and mass culture threatened Labour’s class base (similarity 0.84)
• Postindustrial class structures arose from consumer affluence and corporate capital (similarity 0.84)
• The cash economy correlates social expansion with individual differentiation (similarity 0.82)
• Deindustrialization transformed consumer culture and the symbolic meaning of possessions decades earlier (similarity 0.82)
• Hall’s 1958 essay already predicted post-Fordist consumer culture’s class effects (similarity 0.81)
• Postwar affluence triggered a neoliberal counter-surge rather than classlessness (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Postindustrial class structures arose from consumer affluence and corporate capital #corroborates (0.90)
• The cash economy correlates social expansion with individual differentiation #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 663
• Hall’s 1958 essay already predicted post-Fordist consumer culture’s class effects #corroborates (0.40)