Consumer activists : they made a difference : a history of consumer action related by leaders in the consumer movement /
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| Corporate author / creator: | National Consumers Committee for Research and Education (U.S.) |
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| Imprint: | Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Consumers Union Foundation, c1982. |
| Description: | 365 p. ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/586587 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Caroline F. Ware
- The roots of consumer cooperatives in the U.S. / Erma Angevine
- Growth of cooperatives : the Cooperative League of USA, cooperatives in housing and in international relief / Wallace J. Campbell
- Development of cooperative federations : housing, health, funeral and memorial societies / Jerry Voorhis
- The triumph of rural electric cooperatives / Clyde T. Ellis
- Consumers Union's contribution to the consumer movement / Colston E. Warne
- Development of standard setting : government and voluntary / Erma Angevine
- Weights and measures / Leland Gordon
- Food standards and grades / Sarah H. Newman
- Consumer participation in standards setting / Rebecca Cohen
- The food and drug administration and the consumer / Wallace F. Janssen
- Consumer participation at the federal level / Caroline F. Ware with Gardiner C. Means and Thomas C. Blaisdell
- Consumer representation in the White House / Esther Peterson
- Consumer representation at the state level : the pioneer, New York / Persia Campell
- Consumer representation at the state level : California / Helen Ewing Nelson
- Consumer participation in business / Esther Peterson
- The development of consumer education in the classroom / Erma Angevine
- The development of a consumer economist / Leland Gordon
- The role of home economics in the consumer movement / Marjorie East
- Consumer education : an activist approach / Sandra L. Willett
- Early consumer activism in Washington, D.C. / Sarah H. Newman
- The Nader Network for consumer impact / Colston E. Warne
- The consumer voice : lobbying in the consumer interest / Caroline F. Ware
- Lobbying for the fair packaging and labeling act / Sarah H. Newman
- Lobbying and Consumer Federation of America / Erma Angevine
- The first national consumer organization : the National Consumers League / Mary Dublin Keyserling
- The National Consumers League : new directions 1940-1980 / Erma Angevine with Sarah Newman.