Adalékok a fogyasztás történetéhez.

Absztrakt

The essay analyses a publication by the Budapest Statistic Office on the income and outlay structure of hundred households in 1929. The investigated publication differentiates between workers and members of the middle-class, and analyses the internal differences within the latter. The publication alsó identifies beside the older middle-class a new and broader middle-class with new consumption habits. The present essay interprets this phenomenon as the emergence of the lifestyle characterizing consumer society.