Author: Ohio Wesleyan University. Bureau of Business ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumers
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Survey of the Buying Habits of a Small City
Author: Ohio Wesleyan University. Bureau of Business ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumers
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Buying Habits of Small-town Women
Author: Ferry-Hanly Advertising CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Hope in a Jar
Author: Kathy PeissPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220574X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. She shows how women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. And she highlights the leading role of white and black women—Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C. J. Walker—in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting and conversation. Replete with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, Hope in a Jar is a richly textured account of the ways women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman.
Management Research Summary
Author: United States. Small Business AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Management Research Summary
Author: From Main Street to Mall
Author: Vicki HowardPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812291484
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity in local communities. But after World War II, suburban growth and the ubiquity of automobiles shifted the seat of economic prosperity to malls and shopping centers. The subsequent rise of discount big-box stores and electronic shopping accelerated the pace at which local department stores were shuttered or absorbed by national chains. But as the outpouring of nostalgia for lost downtown stores and historic shopping districts would indicate, these vibrant social institutions were intimately connected to American political, cultural, and economic identities. The first national study of the department store industry, From Main Street to Mall traces the changing economic and political contexts that transformed the American shopping experience in the twentieth century. With careful attention to small-town stores as well as glamorous landmarks such as Marshall Field's in Chicago and Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, historian Vicki Howard offers a comprehensive account of the uneven trajectory that brought about the loss of locally identified department store firms and the rise of national chains like Macy's and J. C. Penney. She draws on a wealth of primary source evidence to demonstrate how the decisions of consumers, government policy makers, and department store industry leaders culminated in today's Wal-Mart world. Richly illustrated with archival photographs of the nation's beloved downtown business centers, From Main Street to Mall shows that department stores were more than just places to shop.
Domestic Commerce
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Sales Management
Author: Domestic Commerce Series
Author: More Books
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description