American Society Chapter 07

CONSUMERISM

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. American Society: How It Really Works Copyright (c) 2010 W. W. Norton & Company

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. American Society: How It Really Works Copyright (c) 2010 W. W. Norton & Company

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. American Society: How It Really Works Copyright (c) 2010 W. W. Norton & Company

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. American Society: How It Really Works Copyright (c) 2010 W. W. Norton & Company

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. American Society: How It Really Works Copyright (c) 2010 W. W. Norton & Company

Figure 07_04 Source: Giulia Faggio and Stephen Nickell, “Patterns of Work Across the OECD,” Economic Journal 117 (June): F416 40, table on F419. American Society: How It Really Works Copyright (c) 2010 W. W. Norton & Company

Figure 07_05 Source: Juliet Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (New York: Basic Books, 1991), 130. American Society: How It Really Works Copyright (c) 2010 W. W. Norton & Company