The expert consumer
Subtitle: associations and professionals in consumer society
By: edited by Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel, and Matthew Hilton.
Contributors: Chatriot, Alain.; Chessel, Marie-Emmanuelle.; Hilton, Matthew.
Series: The history of retailing and consumption
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Consumers -- Europe -- History.; Consumers -- United States -- History.; Consumer protection -- Europe -- History.; Consumer protection -- United States -- History.; Consumption (Economics) -- Europe -- History.; Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel, and Matthew Hilton; title: Early consumer activism; title: Through the medium of their pockets : sabbatarianism, free produce, non-intercourse and the significance of early modern consumer activism / Lawrence B. Glickman; title: The moral expertise of the British consumer, c. 1900: a debate between the Christian Social Union and the Webbs / Julien Vincent; title: Consumers leagues in France: a transatlantic perspective / Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel; title: Consumer expertise in war and peace; title: Educating consumers, representing consumers: reforming the marketplace through scientific expertise at the Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, 1923-1940 / Carolyn M. Goldstein; title: The enemy within: food, nutrition experts and consumers in French-speaking Switzerland, 1900-1946 / Joëlle Droux; title: Shopping for an "economic miracle": gendered politics of consumer; title: Citizenship in divided Germany / Katherine Pence; title: Consumers in the society of consumption; title: Consumers associations and the state: protection and defence of the consumer in France, 1950-2000 / Alain Chatriot; title: Shopping for the people's home: consumer planning in Norway and Sweden after the Second World War / Iselin Theien; title: The entrepreneurial ethic and the spirit of consumerism: finances and strategy in the US consumer movement / Robert N. Mayer; title: Living in the city differently: the birth of new expertise in France in the 1960s and 1970s / Odile Join-Lambert and Yves Lochard; title: The organised consumer movement since 1945 / Matthew Hilton.