Technologies of Taste: Restaurant Guides, Diners, and Dining Halls in Interwar Tokyo

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Eric C. Rath
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Kanto Earthquake ◽  
Mixed Gender ◽  
The Way ◽  
Food Writing

After the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake, Tokyo rebuilt and extended its transportation infrastructure to bring the major areas for residence, business, and pleasure within walking distance, and that sparked a new genre of food writing, the Walker's Guide to Dining (tabearuki). First published in 1929, the year of the Great Depression, and continued up to the mid-1930s, the books by different authors that shared the title Walker's Guide documented affordable places to eat and new communities of restaurant customers, while pioneering new ways to write about food. Gaining particular attention in these books for their inexpensive and varied menus and their mixed gender clientele were trending restaurants called shokudō, a term that referred both to diners and dining halls in department stores. The Walker's Guides and the diner / dining hall can be called technologies of taste for the way they assembled diverse culinary experiences and made them legible for a mass market.

Families, The Family, and the New Deal

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-350
Author(s):  
Robert Leighninger
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
American Families ◽  
The Way

The New Deal, an outpouring of social policies formulated to combat the Great Depression, had enormous effects on American families. It also caused caseworkers to re-evaluate their roles in society. Using the lens of the journal The Family, this article will examine some of these self-reflections and briefly review the impact of New Deal policies on families. In general, caseworkers’ writings were focused more on the way policies were reshaping their profession than on trying to shape the policies themselves.

scholarly journals The Great Depression and the current crisis: brand-related attitudes

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cosmin Ichim
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Brand Strategies ◽  
The Way ◽  
Brand Creation

History should prevent us from repeating the mistakes of the past. This article focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the branding and promotion events that occurred during the Great Depression (1929-1933), projected on the decision of the marketing and management specialists of our times. The economic manifestations, such as: the unemployment rate, the decrease of the purchasing power, the crediting related difficulties, etc., specific to both periods of recession, revolve around the consumer and the way he modifies his consumer behavior. This paper tries to find an answer to the following question: given the decisions made by the managers in the 30’s, what brand strategies are recommended for this period? The answers to the question above are the object of the conclusions of this article. The recommendations provided herein invite us to meditate upon the depression from the previous century and to take a critical look at various marketing related attitudes, such as the disregard for rebranding or brand creation and the diminution of the promotion budgets.

A Global Crisis

The New Deal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Klaus Patel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Nationalism ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Global Event ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Way

This chapter sets the stage and interprets the Great Depression as a global event, as a time of testing for both democracy and capitalism. The Great Depression was not solely an American experience, even if the United States was one of its main origins and particularly hard-hit by its consequences. The slump had global repercussions, and it fundamentally changed the way that Americans and others were connected to and interacted with the wider world. While political reactions tended to separate and segregate, the suffering was shared across latitude and longitude. By 1933, it was still unclear whether the crisis would destroy or fundamentally transform capitalism along with the fabric of capitalist societies. In the wake of the Depression, this ambivalence reverted to economic nationalism, protectionism, and a rather parochial attitude.

Documentarian

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-133
Author(s):  
Robert Volpicelli
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
The State ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
Lecture Tour ◽  
The Way

Chapter 4 considers how the US lecture tour provided the expatriate author Gertrude Stein with a chance to reacquaint herself with her native country. The media blitz that accompanied Stein’s 1934–5 tour—she made regular stops for photo ops, book signings, and radio interviews—has prompted critics to examine the way Americans saw Stein as a 1930s celebrity. This chapter is more interested, though, in the way Stein saw America, examining in particular her role as a social documentarian during one of the lowest points in the Great Depression. It specifically analyzes the way she developed a public lecturing practice invested as much in documenting her audiences as it was in speaking to them. It then goes on to compare her lecture-tour memoir, Everybody’s Autobiography, to the state and regional guidebooks being produced at that time by the New Deal’s Work Progress Administration (WPA) to reveal how these two forms of 1930s documentary come together in their renewed belief in the American collective. Finally, the many points of overlap between Stein’s memoir and WPA documentaries become an occasion to question previous readings of the author’s late 1930s politics, which have typically portrayed Stein as a stalwart social conservative.

Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich. By Kristin Semmens. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xiv+263. $74.95. ISBN 1-4039-3914-4.

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-327
Author(s):  
Peter Fritzsche
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Overnight Stay ◽  
Labor Service ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
The Way ◽  
Hitler Youth

Between the two world wars, Germany was on the move. The slowdown of the Great Depression notwithstanding, more and more Germans took vacations and enjoyed weekend adventures, and when they traveled, they did so to destinations farther and farther away from home. Along the way, they filled up trains, hotels, and youth hostels. And it was very much Germany that Germans wanted to explore, following as they did quite explicit itineraries of the idealized nation. “Seeing Germany,” as Kristin Semmens puts it, was a way of possessing and occupying Germany. This was quite deliberately the case for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who took special trains to Stahlhelm marches, Reichsbanner demonstrations, and, later in the 1930s, the Nuremberg party rallies, for which more than 700 special trains were pressed into service in 1938. “Seeing Germany” was also at the heart of the new tourist practices the Nazis created: the camp experiences of the Hitler Youth and the rural outposts of the Reich Labor Service. Patriotism required an overnight stay.

scholarly journals The postwar capitalism

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-185
Author(s):  
Luka Mesec
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
World War ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Concise Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

In this paper, I will try to offer a very concise overview of the development of the capitalism after the World War II. Specific historical constellation in the postwar period has enabled the development of Keynesian project in response to the crisis of the Great Depression. However, due to the inherent contradictions of the capitalist system, the Keynesian project has exhausted itself by the beginning of the 1970s, which caused a new crisis. This opened the way for the return of neo-liberal theory and neo-liberal policies that dominates today.

scholarly journals George Potter, the Junta, and the Bee-Hive

1965 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-65
Author(s):  
Stephen Coltham
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Small Committee ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Meeting ◽  
The Way

One of the best-known incidents in the history of the Bee-Hive is the reorganisation of 1870, which enabled the Junta to put in their own nominee as editor. What has received far less attention is the way in which the process began in 1868. The first intimation of this to the Bee-Hive's readers was the report of the half-yearly shareholders' meeting held on 29 May. After Potter had again stressed the effects of “the great depression in all trades”, Troup, on behalf of the Directors, “laid a plan before the meeting, by which he thought that the paper could be more advantageously carried on in the interests of the shareholders”. No details of this plan are given in the report; but from the ensuing discussion it is clear that it involved far-reaching changes, since Connolly, Whetstone, and others objected that “any alteration in the constitution of the paper” required the sanction of a specially-convened meeting. Having secured this respite, the shareholders then adopted a resolution, moved by Hartwell, which was obviously intended to provide an alternative solution to their problems – that arrangements should immediately be made for canvassing societies and holding district meetings to advocate the taking up of shares. But this was really a forlorn hope. At the special meeting, on 17 June, the discussion mainly centred round a proposal from the floor that a small committee should be elected to protect the shareholders' interests in the “impending negotiations”. Eventually this was withdrawn, and the Directors were empowered to make “such alterations in the management and arrangements of the paper as would probably effect the object they all desired – increased circulation and influence, and the payment of a dividend on the shares”.

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