The expert consumer : associations and professionals in consumer society /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006. |
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| Description: | ix, 209 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The history of retailing and consumption |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6022486 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction, Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel and Matthew Hilton
- Part 1. Early Consumer Activism: 'Through the medium of their pockets': sabbatarianism, free produce, non-intercourse and the significance of 'early modern' consumer activism, Lawrence B. Glickman
- The moral expertise of the British consumer, c. 1900: a debate between the Christian Social Union and the Webbs, Julien Vincent
- Consumers' leagues in France: a transatlantic perspective, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel
- Part 2. Consumer Expertise in War and Peace: Educating consumers, representing consumers: reforming the marketplace through scientific expertise at the Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, 1923-40, Carolyn M. Goldstein
- The enemy within: food, nutrition experts and consumers in French-speaking Switzerland, 1900-46, Jo0lle Droux
- Shopping for an 'economic miracle': gendered politics of consumer citizenship in divided Germany, Katherine Pence
- Part 3. Consumers in the Society of Consumption: Consumers' Associations and the state: protection and defence of the consumer in France, 1950-2000, Alain Chatriot
- Shopping for the 'people's home': consumer planning in Norway and Sweden after the Second World War, Iselin Theien
- The entrepreneurial ethic and the spirit of consumerism: finances and strategy in the US consumer movement, Robert N. Mayer
- Living in the city differently: the birth of new expertise in France in the 1960s and 1970s, Odile Join-Lambert and Yves Lochard
- The organised consumer movement since 1945, Matthew Hilton
- Index
