Consumer society in American history
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited, with an introduction and bibliographic essay, by Lawrence B. Glickman.
Contributors: Glickman, Lawrence B., 1963-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History; Consumers -- United States; Consumers -- United States -- History; Consumption (Economics) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Born to shop? Consumer history and American history / Lawrence B. Glickman; title: Consumer / Raymond Williams; title: Consuming goods and the good of consuming / Colin Campbell; title: Consumer society / Jean Baudrillard; title: What is an economy for? / James Fallows; title: An environmentalist's perspective on consumer society / Alan Durning; title: The first consumer revolution / James Axtell; title: Narrative of commercial life : consumption, ideology, and community on the eve of the American revolution / T.H. Breen; title: Consumption in early modern social thought / Joyce Appleby; title: Encountering mass culture at the grassroots : the experience of Chicago workers in the 1920s / Lizabeth Cohen; title: Familiar sounds of change : music and the growth of mass culture / George Sanchez; title: From scarcity to abundance : the immigrant as consumer / Andrew Heinze; title: Consuming brotherhood : men's culture, style and recreation as consumer culture, 1880-1930 / Mark A. Swiencicki; title: "Don't buy where you can't work" / Cheryl Greenberg; title: The 'work' ethic and 'leisure' activity : the hot rod in post-war America / H.F. Moorhouse; title: The commodity gap : consumerism and the modern home / Elaine Tyler May; title: The revolution will be marketed : American corporations and black consumers during the 1960s / Robert E. Weems, Jr.; title: All work and no play. It doesn't pay / Juliet B. Schor; title: When high wage jobs are gone, who will buy what we make? / Kim Moody; title: The green consumer / John Elkington, Julia Hailes, and Joel Makower; title: Delectable materialism : second thoughts on consumer culture / Michael Schudson; title: The tyranny of choice / Steven Waldman; title: The pleasures of eating / Wendell Berry; title: Coming up for air : consumer culture in historical perpsective / Jean-Christophe Agnew.