Buying Power
A History of Consumer Activism in America
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Author
Publication
2009 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago (Illinois)
Language
English
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Identifiers
- ISBN-139780226298665
- ISBN-100226298663
- Better World Books9780226298665
- Open LibraryOL35888354M
Classifications
- LCCHC110.C6G56 2009
Description
Consumer activism in America, from seventeenth-century colonialists to the 1970s failure to create a federal Consumer Protection Agency.
First Sentence
Throughout their history, Americans have engaged in an almost continuous series of boycotts, demands for leisure and recreation, campaigns for access to the benefits of consumer society, and efforts to promote safe and ethical consumption.
Subjects
Topics
HistoryBoycottsConsumersUnited StatesConsumer behaviorPolitical activityConsumer protectionCitizen participationConsumers, united statesUnited States. Consumer Protection Agency
People
Ralph NaderArthur KalletF. J. SchlinkEstes KefauverJ. B. MatthewsFlorence KelleyJohn F. KennedyWalter LippmannColston E. Warne
Times
late seventeenth century to the late 1970s
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