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The Consumer’s Comfort and Dream
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The Consumer’s Comfort and Dream
Author(s)
Cross, Gary
Abstract
This selection reviews theories of consumerism, and argues that “working people actively participated in the formation of the consumer society even as they were being manipulated by it”.
Pages
154-183
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Source
Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture
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PubDate
1993
ISBN_ISSN
0415088550
Frontier Issues in Economic Thought
Volume 1: A Survey of Ecological Economics
Volume 2: The Consumer Society
Volume 3: Human Well-Being and Economic Goals
Volume 4: The Changing Nature of Work
Volume 5: The Political Economy of Inequality
Volume 6: A Survey of Sustainable Development