Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain : The Search for a Historical Movement PDF
by Matthew Hilton
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This book is the first comprehensive history of consumerism as an organised social and political movement.
Matthew Hilton offers a groundbreaking account of consumer movements, ideologies and organisations in twentieth-century Britain.
He argues that in organisations such as the Co-operative movement and the Consumers' Association individual concern with what and how we spend our wages led to forms of political engagement too often overlooked in existing accounts of twentieth-century history.
He explores how the consumer and consumerism came to be regarded by many as a third force in society with the potential to free politics from the perceived stranglehold of the self-interested actions of employers and trade unions.
Finally he recovers the visions of countless consumer activists who saw in consumption a genuine force for liberation for women, the working class and new social movements as well as a set of ideas often deliberately excluded from more established political organisations.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/11/2003
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/11/2003
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- ISBN:9780511056680
