1. a.(State of Prosperity) - referenced in Source A suggest that living standards and working conditions had improved greatly for everyone, doesn't really sound like "classes" anymore as much as equality among classes. This would make sense as well since this is post World War II and UK was devastated by this.
b. (mother's little helper) - The song seems to reference a child to help out her mother, when in fact it's talking about the mother taking drugs, and getting more drugs from the "doctor". The helper is the drug and it's taking away the mother/wife from doing her daily old custom duties.
2. Source A and C depict polar opposites of consumers in UK at the time. Source A shows that everyone was happy and prosperous. Where you could go to any part of the UK and see this. While Source C depicts this differently, where Joe Strummer a citizen in the UK finds it difficult to shop in the grocery store. Showing that the "state of prosperity" wasn't for everyone, especially in the consumer society.
3. Source A's origin is a speech to a rally of Conservative supporters by the Prime Minister Harold MacMillian in 1957. It's purpose is to show how England had reached a "state of prosperity" and that everyone was happy for the first time in a long time. It's valuable because it was written in 1957, giving hindsight to the historian studying the time period. It's origin is also valuable because a historian needs primary sources, which this is and it is also from a Prime Minister, someone who has authority in the country. While this can also be a limitation because though little is given on it's origins, it however could be fully untrue. Prime Minister Harold MacMillian may have said these things for his own personal gain not exactly the truth. But to make this limitation a value, historians look at this primary source and others by regular people since this speech is directed towards them in order to compare validity.
Source C's origin is a song called, "Lost in the Supermarket" from the Clash's Strummer Jones written in 1979. It's purpose to is to convey how Strummer is feeling with society in London. Also how he feels he is unhappy and lost his personality due to the "prosperity". It's valuable to a historian studying the time period because not only does it give it hindsight but also the song is written by a more regular person than the Prime Minister so it also adds incite on how things really were from his perspective. This could also be a limitation because due to it being a song he may have been pressured into writing a song like this to meet the demands of the label.
4. According to Source A around the 1950s the economy was great and prosperous for everyone that lived in the UK. While in Source B it depicts the wife, changing her role a little bit. For example it says "Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag, so she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak". The song is a drug reference that was written in the 1960s, between 1950 to 1980 there was a cultural role change that affected the consumer economy.Source C however depicts the consumer economy as a degression in the late 1970s. Strummer Jones, is highly unhappy with the situation and feels like there is a loss of identity. Seems like everyone is becoming one and joining this consumer economy and to him its not for the better of the UK. According to the graph (http://tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/timetric-uk-real-gdp-since-1950/) the consumer economy more than triples between 1950 to 1980. Due to problems with the consumer economy in the 1970s this led to massive unemployment which could be seen as both a good and a bad thing, because this lead to more popular culture such as the New Wave of Music and also Punk Rock music but once the two started to merge this is where Source C takes a play. Due to Strummer feeling he lost his personality and also being unhappy.
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