Screen LibraryShopping for change : consumer activism and the possibilities of purchasing power /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ithaca : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781501709258 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 1501709259 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | HC95 |
| CLC: | F014.5-05 |
| Call Number: | F014.5-05/S559 |
| Contents: |
Consuming with a conscience : the free produce movement in early America / Boycotts, buycotts, and legislation : tactical lessons from workers and consumers during the Progressive Era / Making a market for consumers : the Calgary Consumers League and the high cost of living / Making a middle-class "public" : middle-class consumer activism in post-First World War America / You are purchasing prosperity! : local buying initiatives and women as conscious consumers in the Great Depression / Making money in hard times : scrip and grassroots efforts to solve the Great Depression / Sarah Elvins -- Protecting the "guinea pig children" : resisting children's food advertising in the 1930s / Our economic way out : Black American consumers' co-operation in the first half of the twentieth century / Not buying it : reconsidering American consumer opposition to Nazi anti-semitism / Canada's citizen housewives : Cold War anti-communism and the limits of maternalism / "The consumer goes to war" : consumer politics in the United States and Canada during the Second World War / From the Great Society to Giant : Esther Peterson and the politics of shopping / The countercultural roots of green consumerism / Purchasing change : the (un)intended consequences of biofuel consumption on the world's poor / Buying a better world : from cause marketing to social innovation, can consumption create positive social change? / What about the cause? : the campaign for safe cosmetics and the pinkwashing of breast cancer activism / The making of a Coke CAN : Coca-Colas Civic Action Network (CAN) and the seeding of corporate astroturf campaigns, 1995-2015 / Boot the bell : solidarity as strategy in the Neoliberal Era / Where's the beef ... from? : boycotting Burger King to protect Central American rainforests / The sweatshop effect : consumer activism and the anti-sweatshop movement on college campuses / Hating Wal-Mart, loving Target, and the contradictions of supply chain capitalism / Ports are the new factories : supply chains and labour power in the twenty-first century / To speak in one voice : dynamics of a cross-movement coalition for financial reform / On demand / |