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Middle class union : organizing the "consuming public" in post-World War I America /
Middle Class Union" argues that the period following World War I was a pivotal moment in the development of middle-class consumer politics in the 20th century. At this time, middle-class Americans politically mobilized to define for society what was fair in the growing consumer marketplace. The...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Politicizing consumption in the community: middle class consumer organizing during the Progressive era and World War I
- Becoming producers and avoiding the middleman: home garden and municipal market campaigns
- The "flying squadron" declares war on the profiteers: the high cost of living division and federally sponsored middle-class consumer organizing
- A nation in overalls: middle-class clothing boycotts
- Rent war! Middle-class tenant organizing
- Epilogue: toward a middle class union.