Selling Out or Buying In? : Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985 /

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"Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today's consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sunday...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dawson, Michael, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Consumption (Economics)
Consumer behavior.
HISTORY / Canada / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
Consommateurs > Comportement > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Consumer behavior > British Columbia > Australia > Victoria > History > 20th century.
Consumer behavior > British Columbia > Vancouver > History > 20th century.
Consumption (Economics) > British Columbia > Australia > Victoria > History > 20th century.
Consumption (Economics) > British Columbia > Vancouver > History > 20th century.
British Columbia > Victoria.
British Columbia > Vancouver.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Page i; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Santa's Lament; Chapter One: Conflict: Restricting and Liberalizing Store Hours; Chapter Two: Community: Tourism, Leisure, and the Quest for Civic Prosperity; Chapter Three: Leverage: The Rhetoric and Reality of Chain-Store Dominance; Chapter Four: Morality: Women, Families, and Consumer Convenience; Chapter Five: Regulation: Evasion and Enforcement; Chapter Six: Ideology: The Cold War and the Public Sphere; Chapter Seven: Religion: Sunday Shopping's Multiple Battlegrounds; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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