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Author: Percy Redfern Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780428945497 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 122
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Excerpt from The Consumers Place in Society The lectures were given to co-operative and labour audiences, and the lecturer was happiest when (as in South Wales) the schools included militant young men from left-wing trade councils. He did not want to impede or distract Labour in its fight but he did want the young men to contend not for sections but for the whole Of the people, the consumers. Apart from the struggle between owners farming out possessions for profit and unions to sell labour at the highest possible price, he stood for a third party potentially greater than either - a party organised in a reconstructive movement leading to a new industry based on the peoples' needs, under the ownership and control Of the people in their masses. But while claiming the chief place for that third party he did not forget that the million wide ranks Of Labour are drawn from the flesh and blood Of the common democratic household whereas the capitalist mansion is another establishment altogether. In View Of the miners' stand for the British domestic consumer and in view, also, Of the very interesting experiment in co-operation between the municipalities, the Building Guild and the CO Operative Wholesale and co-operative Insurance Societies now proceeding, he is glad to emphasise again this common bond. For the idea Of his opening sentence the author is indebted to Mankind in the Making, by Mr. H. G. Wells - the book which Mr. Shaw proposed to dramatise by means Of a spout discharging the babies! He believes this to be the only due acknowledgment not to be found in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Percy Redfern Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780428945497 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 122
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Excerpt from The Consumers Place in Society The lectures were given to co-operative and labour audiences, and the lecturer was happiest when (as in South Wales) the schools included militant young men from left-wing trade councils. He did not want to impede or distract Labour in its fight but he did want the young men to contend not for sections but for the whole Of the people, the consumers. Apart from the struggle between owners farming out possessions for profit and unions to sell labour at the highest possible price, he stood for a third party potentially greater than either - a party organised in a reconstructive movement leading to a new industry based on the peoples' needs, under the ownership and control Of the people in their masses. But while claiming the chief place for that third party he did not forget that the million wide ranks Of Labour are drawn from the flesh and blood Of the common democratic household whereas the capitalist mansion is another establishment altogether. In View Of the miners' stand for the British domestic consumer and in view, also, Of the very interesting experiment in co-operation between the municipalities, the Building Guild and the CO Operative Wholesale and co-operative Insurance Societies now proceeding, he is glad to emphasise again this common bond. For the idea Of his opening sentence the author is indebted to Mankind in the Making, by Mr. H. G. Wells - the book which Mr. Shaw proposed to dramatise by means Of a spout discharging the babies! He believes this to be the only due acknowledgment not to be found in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Juliet Schor Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1595587586 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 530
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The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. Included here is much-discussed work by leading critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Susan Bordo, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, and Janice Radway. Also included is a full range of classics, such as Frankfurt School writers Adorno and Horkheimer on the Culture Industry; Thorstein Veblen's oft-cited writings on "conspicuous consumption"; Betty Friedan on the housewife's central role in consumer society; John Kenneth Galbraith's influential analysis of the "affluent society"; and Pierre Bourdieu on the notion of "taste." "Consumer society--the 'air we breathe,' as George Orwell has described it--disappears during economic downtruns and political crises. It becomes visible again when prosperity seems secure, cultural transformation is too rapid, or enviornmental disasters occur. Such is the time in which we now find ourselves. As the roads clog with gas-guzzling SUVs and McMansions proliferate in the suburbs, the nation is once again asking fundamental questions about lifestyle. Has 'luxury fever,' to use Robert Frank's phrase, gotten out of hand? Are we really comfortable with the 'Brand Is Me' mentality? Have we gone too far in pursuit of the almighty dollar, to the detriment of our families, communities, and natural enviornment? Even politicians, ordinarily impermeable to questions about consumerism, are voicing doubts... [and] polls suggest majorities of Americans feel the country has become too materialistic, too focused on getting and spending, and increasingly removed from long-standing non-materialist values." —From the introduction by Douglas B. Holt and Juliet B. Schor
Author: Percy B. 1875 Redfern Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781361398692 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 122
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Author: Neva R. Goodwin Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1597267902 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 427
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The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater satisfaction, security, or well-being, even for affluent consumers. The Consumer Society provides brief summaries of the most important and influential writings on the environmental, moral, and social implications of a consumer society and consumer lifestyles. Each section consists of ten to twelve summaries of critical writings in a specific area, with an introductory essay that outlines the state of knowledge in that area and indicates where further research is needed. Sections cover: Scope and Definition Consumption in the Affluent Society Family, Gender, and Socialization The History of Consumerism Foundations of Economic Theories of Consumption Critiques and Alternatives in Economic Theory Perpetuating Consumer Culture: Media, Advertising, and Wants Creation Consumption and the Environment Globalization and Consumer Culture Visions of an Alternative This book is the second volume in the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought series, which provides surveys of the most significant writings in emergent areas of economics -- an invaluable aid in fast-growing fields where genuine new ground is being broken. The series brings together economists, sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers to develop analyses that challenge and enrich the dominant neoclassical paradigm. The Consumer Society is an essential guide to and summary of the literature of consumption and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the deeper economic, social, and ethical implications of consumerism.
Author: Martyn J. Lee Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell ISBN: 9780631207979 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 352
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The Consumer Society Reader is the most substantial collection of classic and contemporary readings on consumption and consumer society for students of cultural studies and sociology of culture. From Karl Marx to Jean Baudrillard, the volume introduces students and researchers to the topics, themes, and preoccupations of twentieth-century consumer culture.
Author: Charles Gide Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267986545 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Excerpt from Consumers Co-Operative Societies The excellent translation of Professor Gide's Les Sociétés Coope'ratives de consommatz'on which follows is the result of the labors of the staff of the Cooperative Reference Library, Dublin, Ireland. The present editor, in preparing the book for an American public, has, by permission of the fellow-co-operators in Dublin, eliminated such of the English footnotes as were of interest principally to British readers or has incorporated them in his own. He has also moved up into the text many of Professor Gide's notes added by him at the time of the translation into English. Therefore at present there are only the two kinds of footnotes: those of the original author and those of the American editor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ward McAllister Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 500
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"Samuel Ward McAllister (December 1827?January 31, 1895) was the self-appointed arbiter of New York society from the 1860s to the early 1890s."--Wikipedia.
Author: Jean Baudrillard Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1473994543 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 241
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Jean Baudrillard′s classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard′s most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard′s extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.
Author: HORACE M. KALLEN Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780656124923 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Excerpt from The Decline and Rise of the Consumer: A Philosophy of Consumer Cooperation The idea of this self-feeling of all persons is implicit in the concept of democracy and in the gospels of religion. The demo cratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same and that any man can be substituted for any other so that his differences make no difference. The two are not at all the same. The demo cratic rule that all men are equal means that men's being dif ferent cannot be made a basis for special privilege or for the invidious advantage of one man over another; equality, under the democratic rule, is the freedom and opportunity of each individual to be fully and completely his different self. De mocracy means the right to be different. The gospels of religion propound the same notion when they say that all men are equal before God and that salvation is open to all alike. The discoveries of science confirm the positions of democracy and religion. To the Nature which the scientist studies, each of her multitudinous components, as it is in itself, apart from every thing else, endeavors on its own power to sustain its identity, to live and to grow. If it perishes it is not because Nature has taken Sides against it; if it survives it is not because Nature has preferred and chosen it. Each succeeds or fails in its own right, and by its own energies. Its world was not made for it; but yet is made by it, as its activities combine or conflict with the activities of other beings, that environ it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Percy Redfern
Author: Percy Redfern
Author: Percy Redfern
Author: Juliet Schor
Author: Percy B. 1875 Redfern
Author: Neva R. Goodwin
Author: Martyn J. Lee
Author: Charles Gide
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