Title: Buying Power
Description: Consumer activism in America, from seventeenth-century colonialists to the 1970s failure to create a federal Consumer Protection Agency.
Subjects: History, Consumers, Political activity, Boycotts, Consumer behavior, Consumer protection, Citizen participation, United States. Consumer Protection Agency, United States, Consumers, united states
People: Arthur Kallet, Estes Kefauver, Florence Kelley, John F. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, J. B. Matthews, Ralph Nader, F. J. Schlink, Colston E. Warne
Time periods: late seventeenth century to the late 1970s