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From head shops to Whole Foods : the rise and fall of activist entrepreneurs /
In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts-including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers-brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other social movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Activist business: origins and ideologies
- Liberation through literacy: African American bookstores, Black Power, and the mainstreaming of black books
- The business of getting high: head shops, countercultural capitalism, and the battle over marijuana
- "The feminist economic revolution": businesses in the women's movement
- Natural foods stores: environmental entrepreneurs and the perils of growth
- Perseverance and appropriation: activist business in the twenty-first century
- Conclusion.