Author: Stephen BrobeckPublisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An annotated guide that describes nearly a 1000 sources on the sonsumer movement.
The Modern Consumer Movement
Author: Stephen BrobeckPublisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An annotated guide that describes nearly a 1000 sources on the sonsumer movement.
Buying Power
Author: Lawrence B. GlickmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226298663
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A definitive history of consumer activism, Buying Power traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation’s founding, revealing that Americans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott even entered our lexicon. Taking the Boston Tea Party as his starting point, Lawrence Glickman argues that the rejection of British imports by revolutionary patriots inaugurated a continuous series of consumer boycotts, campaigns for safe and ethical consumption, and efforts to make goods more broadly accessible. He explores abolitionist-led efforts to eschew slave-made goods, African American consumer campaigns against Jim Crow, a 1930s refusal of silk from fascist Japan, and emerging contemporary movements like slow food. Uncovering previously unknown episodes and analyzing famous events from a fresh perspective, Glickman illuminates moments when consumer activism intersected with political and civil rights movements. He also sheds new light on activists’ relationship with the consumer movement, which gave rise to lobbies like the National Consumers League and Consumers Union as well as ill-fated legislation to create a federal Consumer Protection Agency.
Citizen Action and Other Big Ideas
Author: David BollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Consumer Movement
Author: Robert N. MayerPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Analyzing the consumer movement from sociological, economic, and political perspectives, Mayer argues that American consumer activists have successfully shaped public policy despite formidable obstacles. He details the history of consumer activism in the United States, looks at significant leaders, and examines the key components of the present movement. He measures its successes and failures, compares it with movements in other countries, shows how shrewd political maneuvering has combined with fortuitous circumstances to bring about legislation in the interest of consumers, and foresees the problems and issues that will spark the next wave of consumerism. ISBN 0-8057-9718-1 (alk. Paper): $25.95.
Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Author: Matthew HiltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521538534
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive history of consumerism as an organised social and political movement. Matthew Hilton offers a groundbreaking account of consumer movements, ideologies and organisations in twentieth-century Britain. He argues that in organisations such as the Co-operative movement and the Consumers' Association individual concern with what and how we spend our wages led to forms of political engagement too often overlooked in existing accounts of twentieth-century history. He explores how the consumer and consumerism came to be regarded by many as a third force in society with the potential to free politics from the perceived stranglehold of the self-interested actions of employers and trade unions. Finally he recovers the visions of countless consumer activists who saw in consumption a genuine force for liberation for women, the working class and new social movements as well as a set of ideas often deliberately excluded from more established political organisations.
Paris and the Spirit of 1919
Author: Tyler Edward StovallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018013
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of French political activism at the end of World War I.
A Consumers' Republic
Author: Lizabeth CohenPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307555364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our “Consumers’ Republic” Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.
Advertising on Trial
Author: Inger L. StolePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092589
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In the 1930s, the United States almost regulated advertising to a degree that seems unthinkable today. Activists viewed modern advertising as propaganda that undermined the ability of consumers to live in a healthy civic environment. Organized consumer movements fought the emerging ad business and its practices with fierce political opposition. Inger L. Stole examines how consumer activists sought to limit corporate influence by rallying popular support to moderate and change advertising. Stole weaves the story through the extensive use of primary sources, including archival research done with consumer and trade group records, as well as trade journals and engagement with the existing literature. Her account of the struggle also demonstrates how public relations developed in order to justify laissez-faire corporate advertising in light of a growing consumer rights movement, and how the failure to rein in advertising was significant not just for civic life in the 1930s but for our era as well.
Prosperity for All
Author: Matthew HiltonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801475078
Category : Consumer behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
In Prosperity for All, the first international history of consumer activism, Matthew Hilton shows that modern consumer advocacy reached the peak of its influence in the decades after World War II and focused on creating a more equitable marketplace.
The Ethical Consumer
Author: Rob HarrisonPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781412903530
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Focusing on ethical consumers, their behavior, discourses and narratives as well as the social and political contexts in which they operate, this text provides a summary of the manner and effectiveness of their actions.