non-consumption

Examples of non-consumption in the following topics:

• Women in the Revolution

  • Nonimportation and non-consumption became major weapons in the arsenal of the American resistance movement against British taxation without representation.
  • Even though these "non-consumption boycotts" depended on national policy (formulated by men), it was women who enacted them in households.

• Revolutionary Women

  • Just as spinning and weaving American cloth became a mechanism of resistance, so did many acts of consumption.
  • Even though these "non-consumption boycotts" depended on a national policy formulated by men, it was women who enacted them in the household spheres.

• The Spreading Conflict

  • The word "boycott" had not yet been coined; colonists referred to their economic protests as, depending upon the specific activity, "non-importation", "non-exportation", or "non-consumption".

• Automobiles, Airplanes, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress

  • After the war, Charles Lindbergh rose to instant fame in 1927 with the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.

• The Calm Before the Storm

  • Parliament laid additional taxes on tea sold for consumption in Britain.
  • This partial repeal of the taxes was enough to bring an end to the non-importation movement, which colonists were using to boycott British goods, by October 1770.

• Globalization and the U.S.

  • The direction of cultural flows has often been one-sided, and worldwide export of Western culture to non-Western nations has proliferated through new forms of mass media: film, radio, television, recorded music, and most recently the internet.
  • This process is marked by the common consumption of cultures that have been diffused by the Internet, popular culture media, and international travel.
  • Increasingly, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) influence public policy across national boundaries, including humanitarian aid and developmental efforts.

• The Culture of Abundance and Consumerism

  • The 1950s were a time of expanded consumption of household goods, spurred by a rise in overall prosperity within America.
  • In the 20th century, the significant improvement of the standard of living of a society, and the consequent emergence of the middle class, broadly applied the term "conspicuous consumption" to the men, women, and households who possessed the discretionary income that allowed them to practice the patterns of economic consumption—of goods and services—which were motivated by the desire for prestige and the public display of social status, rather than by the intrinsic, practical utility of the goods and the services proper.
  • In the 1920s, economists such as Paul Nystrom proposed that changes in the style of life, made feasible by the economics of the industrial age, had induced to the mass of society a "philosophy of futility" that would increase the consumption of goods and services as a social fashion—an activity done for its own sake.
  • Between 1946 and 1960, the United States witnessed a significant expansion in the consumption of goods and services.
  • GNP rose by 36% and personal consumption expenditures by 42%, cumulative gains which were reflected in the incomes of families and unrelated individuals.

• The Prohibition Movement

  • Private ownership and consumption of alcohol were not made illegal under federal law; however, in many areas, local laws were stricter, with some states banning possession outright.
  • Although alcohol consumption did decline as a whole, there was a rise in alcohol consumption in many cities along with significant increases in organized crime related to its production and distribution.
  • The government cracked down on alcohol consumption on land within the United States.
  • Although popular opinion is that Prohibition failed, it succeeded in cutting overall alcohol consumption in half during the 1920s, and consumption remained below pre-Prohibition levels until the 1940s, suggesting that Prohibition did socialize a significant proportion of the population in temperate habits, at least temporarily.

• The Election of 1920

  • Debs received 913,664 popular votes, 3.4% of the total votes, despite being in prison at the time for advocating non-compliance with the draft World War I.
  • Since the Eighteenth Amendment had already been passed the previous year, initiating the period of Prohibition that banned alcohol sales and consumption in the United States, this single-issue party seemed unnecessary to voters.

• The Transition to Peacetime

  • The initial quest for cars, appliances, and new furniture after the end of World War II quickly expanded into the mass consumption of goods, services, and recreational materials during the Fifties.
  • Between 1945 and 1960, GNP grew by 250%, expenditures on new construction multiplied nine times, and consumption on personal services increased three times.
  • By 1960, per capita income was 35% higher than in 1945, and America had entered what the economist Walt Rostow referred to as the "high mass consumption" stage of economic development.