CONSUMING FANTASIES
Subtitle: LABOR, LEISURE, AND THE LONDON SHOPGIRL,
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: March 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780814210178
Subjects: Sociology; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English literature; Social Science; Women sales personnel in literature; Sociology - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Popular Culture; 20th century; 19th century; History and criticism
First sentence: As [the shop assistant] comes to self-consciousness and catches the spirit of the age, she too strains at the yoke of capital on labour.