1. American
Society
Chapter 07

2. CONSUMERISM

3. Figure 07_01
Source: Debra J. Holt, Pauline M. Ippolito, Debra M. Desrochers, and Christopher R. Kelley, “Children’s Exposure to TV Advertising in 1977 and 2004: Information for the Obesity Debate,” Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics Staff Report (Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission, 2007), p. ES-2.
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4. Figure 07_02
Source: Debra J. Holt, Pauline M. Ippolito, Debra M. Desrochers, and Christopher R. Kelley, “Children’s Exposure to TV Advertising in 1977 and 2004: Information for the Obesity Debate,” Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics Staff Report (Washington, DC: Federal Trade Commission, 2007), p. ES-2.
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5. Figure 07_03
Source: Survey of Construction Data, Single-family detached houses only (Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, 2008). Analysis provided by Rachel Dwyer.
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6. Table 07_01
Notes: 1. We are uncertain of the reliability of the data for Italy; see footnote 15 in text.
2. This is 2005 data.
3. The 1979 data are for West Germany.
Source: The State of Working America, 2008/2009. Adapted from table 8.4, with supplementary data from OECD Excel file.
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7. Table 07_02
Source: Jerry Jacobs and Janet Gornick, “Hours of Paid Work in Dual-Earner Couples: The United States in Cross-National Perspective,” Sociological Focus 35(2): 169–87. Adapted from tables 1 and 3.
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8. Figure 07_04
Source: Giulia Faggio and Stephen Nickell, “Patterns of Work Across the OECD,” Economic Journal 117 (June): F416 40, table on F419.
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9. Figure 07_05
Source: Juliet Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (New York: Basic Books, 1991), 130.
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