Buying Power
Subtitle: A History of Consumer Activism in America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago (Illinois)
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226298665
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Consumers, united states; Boycotts; Consumer behavior; Consumer protection
First sentence: Throughout their history, Americans have engaged in an almost continuous series of boycotts, demands for leisure and recreation, campaigns for access to the benefits of consumer society, and efforts to promote safe and ethical consumption.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; label: Introduction
title: An American Political Tradition; label: Part I
title: The Birth of Consumer Activism; label: 1
title: The American Revolution Considered as a Consumer Movement; label: 2
title: Buy for the Sake of the Slave; label: 3
title: Rebel Consumerism; label: 4
title: Travels of the Boycott:  What’s in a Name?; label: Part II
title: The Birth of the Consumer Movement; label: 5
title: Remaking Consumer Activism in the Progressive Era; label: 6
title: The Strike in the Temple of Consumption; label: 7
title: “Make Lisle the Style"; label: Part III
title: Advocates and Activists:  Consumer Activism since World War II; label: 8
title: Putting the Postwar “Consumer Movement” in Its Place; label: 9
title: The Rise and Fall of the Consumer Protection Agency:  The Origins of American Antiliberalism, 1959–1978; label: Epilogue
title: Consumer Activism Comes Full Circle; title: Appendix; title: Notes; title: Index