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How American Buying Habits Change

How American Buying Habits Change

DATE: 1959

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This book describes the improvements in living standards which Americans have achieved since 1888. In that year, the Commissioner of Labor initiated the Federal Government's first survey to find out how people live—what food they ate, what clothes they wore, what kinds of dwellings they lived in, what they spent on recreation and transportation. Since that time, at fairly widespread intervals, similar studies have been made, some of national coverage. And each in turn reflected changes in the way that people live. In this book these various studies have been dovetailed to yield a picture of changes in the consumption habits of the American people over more than half a century.

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United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics. How American Buying Habits Change. Washington: U.S. Department of Labor, 1959, https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/7098, accessed on September 30, 2023.

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PUBLISHER: U.S. Department of Labor

PLACE: Washington

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  • lcc: HD6983.A543 1959
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  • oclc: 568604092
  • oclc: 631756218
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