Chapter+27

KBM Mass-producing with interchangeable parts became a large part of consumerism in the 1800s, when it came around. Similarly, the mass production of houses was tied to the reproduction of the same layout and parts as well as an assembly line- like construction pattern of groups that is comparable with Henry Ford's production of the model T. With housing for the returning veterans the new focus of the industry, Levitt incorporated the idea of hosing mass production into a small town of Levittown, Long Island, New York. These houses were provided at a cheap price, manageable by the quick, organized, repeated labor of the groups of workers building each. The market was maintained as well as sparking 'Levittowns' across the nation to get veterans back into the population as members of society, most being own their own home at a surprisingly cost. The cookie-cutter homes were seen to be relatable to the soldiers who worked as a team in uniform making up part of a whole with no individuality evident. Although they provided cheap housing for most soldiers, African Americans were excluded from these newly coined 'suburbs', keeping them trapped with the poor, lower classes in cities as middle-class and higher stretched outward. As the American population was becoming more homogenized in this era with the 50s, exemplified by identical housing in Levittown, this may have been a base for the outbreak of unusual and extraordinary in regards to social aspects (music, clothing, etc...) in the 60s and 70s, as those of said are still known for their individuality today.