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The ‘Consumer Republic’ as Cohen mentions, is made from the relationship between the citizen consumers and purchaser consumer. Citizens consumers consume for the general good and purchaser consumers are for the individual themselves, not for the general. She discusses the ups and downs of the time revealing how the consumer movement was not very strong. There were issues of price controls, taxation, minimum wages, and some other systems. Then the home reconstruction began, making it cheaper to purchase homes, and with purchasing homes, it made individuals want to purchase things to place in the homes. Then came the GI bill which really helped men more than it did women because there were more men veterans. Then came tax structure which was helpful for single earning families, the earner having to be a