25 Things 1950s Husbands Never Knew About the Family Money

25 Things 1950s Husbands Never Knew About the Family Money Almost everything you picture about who held the money in the 1950s is wrong. The advertisers and the sitcoms sold you a tidy arrangement, the husband as breadwinner and the wife as a sweet spender of his earnings, a woman who asked permission for a new hat and knew nothing of where the dollars went. The records say something far stranger and far shrewder. Resources Household Finance in the United States – 1950 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/h... Income of Families and Persons in the United States: 1950 U.S. Census Bureau https://www.census.gov/library/public... Survey of Consumer Finances, 1950 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR... A Brief Postwar History of US Consumer Finance Harvard Business School Working Paper — Moss & Cloyd, 2011 https://www.hbs.edu/ris/download.aspx... More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave Ruth Schwartz Cowan https://archive.org/details/moreworkf... Consumer Credit in the United States: Its History and Current Problems Federal Reserve Bulletin / National Bureau of Economic Research reprint — Durkin et al. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/c... "Copyright Disclaimer" Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, education or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.