Reilly’s roleas home economist was less a blue-collar job than a highly professionalizedposition for educated women at a time when many women were deniedprofessional status.
Expansion of middle-class white women's roles into food-related professions Reflects how 1950s American culture confined women's professional opportunities to consumer-oriented domestic fields.
The suburbs—the new residential areas just outside of cities, neitherurban nor rural—represented much of the prosperity of this period
Rise of suburban culture with its emphasis on modern kitchens and processed foods, contrasted with racial and economic inequalities, including segregation and redlining Food and domestic ideals reinforced both social mobility for some and systemic exclusion for others.
Jell-O was embedded in at least three major strands of Progressivism: therise of domestic science, attention to inequality, and pure food reform.
Food reforms- making the byproducts (Jello-O) to maximize profits Reforms for women and equality Jell-O is made inexpensive and available to all --> support equality
Democracy and Education was written before the assemblyline had achieved its dominant position in the industrialworld and before mechanization had depopulated the farmsof America.
Interesting history and possible solutions.
Dewey on the humanization of work front running the dramatic changes of and in work in an industrial age?
Note here the potential coupling of democracy and education as dovetailing ideas rather than separate ideas which can be used simultaneously. We should take care here not to end up with potential baggage that could result in society and culture the way scholasticism combined education and religion in the middle ages onward.
Dewey was first of all a social reformer.