Post war economy - 2
•Consolidation in business
- communications, hotels, insurance, car rentals
•by 1956 majority of workers
in white-collar jobs
•unions win good terms of
employment
•Agriculture faces tougher
times
•By
1998 just 3.4 m in agriculture had been 7.9m at end of
war
•suburban
migration grows
•air conditioning becomes
popular