Postwar American consumption was politically constructed

Evidence

6. Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003); Martin J. Sklar, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism: 1890–1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988). — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1721

Categorization

• XREF: Cohen’s consumer republic and Sklar’s corporate capitalism are the historical scaffolding for Zuboff’s claim that surveillance capitalism inverts the previous mass-consumption bargain; connects to the main text’s Apple chapter. — connects to: Consumer boycotts forged American national identity before political independence — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1600; Broadcast networks actively molded homogeneous postwar Americans into a unified consumer mass — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 618; Wartime propaganda’s end left a vacuum that postwar advertising filled — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 430 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Broadcast networks actively molded homogeneous postwar Americans into a unified consumer mass #expands (0.95) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 618