Imagining Consumers
Subtitle: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning (Studies in Industry and Society)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 17, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780801861932
Subjects: Consumer issues; Manufacturing industries; Social history; Industries - General; Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical; Ceramic Engineering; Industries And Trades (Economic Aspects); United States; Business & Economics; Art & Art Instruction; History: American; USA; Glassware industry; Commercial - General; Design - Decorative; United States - General; History / United States / General; Ceramic tableware industry; Great Britain; History
First sentence: BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR and World War II, the United States emerged as an industrial giant and a consumer society.