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Prosperity for All : Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization /

From the Publisher: The history of consumerism is about much more than just shopping. Ever since the eighteenth century, citizen-consumers have protested against the abuses of the market by boycotting products and promoting fair instead of free trade. In recent decades, consumer activism has respond...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hilton, Matthew
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : the wealth of access
  • The fear of fortune : the uneasy consumer in an age of affluence
  • Cold war shoppers : consumerism as state project
  • Poverty amid prosperity : consumer protest beyond the affluent west
  • Consumers of the world unite : consumption and the new global order
  • The all-consuming network : the politics of protest in an age of consumption
  • Backlash : the corporate critique of consumerism
  • Choose life : consumer rights versus human rights
  • Shopping for justice : the freedom of free trade
  • Conclusion : the poverty of choice.