Buying power : a history of consumer activism in America /
Far from ephemeral consumer trends, buying green and avoiding sweatshop-made clothing represent the most recent points on a centuries-long continuum of American consumer activism. A sweeping and definitive history of this political tradition, Buying Power traces its lineage back to our nation's...
| Основен автор: | Glickman, Lawrence B., 1963- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2009.
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Print version::
Buying power. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: an American political tradition
- The birth of consumer activism
- The American Revolution considered as a consumer movement
- Buy for the sake of the slave
- Rebel consumerism
- Travels of the boycott: what's in a name?
- The birth of the consumer movement
- Remaking consumer activism in the Progressive Era
- The strike in the temple of consumption
- "Make Lisle the style"
- Advocates and activists: consumer activism since World War II
- Putting the postwar "consumer movement" in its place
- The rise and fall of the Consumer Protection Agency: the origins of American antiantiliberalism, 1959-1978
- Epilogue: Consumer activism comes full circle: the revival of consumer activism in contemporary America.