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Cambridge University Press Unending Capitalism
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Consumer Protection: Recalls, Data Security and
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Consumer Product Safety Commission Issues
Book SynopsisPublic alarm about the spate of recent product recalls, particularly of toys and other products used by children, has focused attention on the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). This book provides an overview of the prior authority of the CPSC to establish consumer product safety standards and to inspect and recall unsafe consumer products. This book also describes the new requirements for certification and testing and the effect of the stay of enforcement of these requirements announced by the CPSC, certain new safety standards established by the CPSIA and related implementation actions and issues. In addition, the authors assessed injury and death data sources used by CPSC, compared CPSC''s consumer education efforts with key practices, and interviewed federal officials and groups representing the health and consumer interests of minority populations. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.
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Oslo Academic Press Affluence & Activism: Organized Consumers in the
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Oxford University Press The Challenge of Affluence
Book SynopsisSince the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including family breakdown, addiction, mental instability, crime, obesity, inequality, economic insecurity, and declining trust. Avner Offer argues that well-being has lagged behind affluence in these societies, because they present an environment in which consistent choices are difficult to achieve over different time ranges and in which the capacity for personal and social commitment is undermined by the flow of novelty. His approach draws on economics and social science, makes use of the latest cognitive research, and provides a detailed and reasoned critique of modern consumer society, especially the assumption that freedom of choice necessarily maximizes individual and social well-being. The book falls into three parts. Part one analyses the ways in which economic resources map on to human welfare, why choice is soTrade ReviewAvner Offer's latest sparkling and intellectually pugnacious contribution to his protean bibliography represents a tour de force of scholarship and provocative argument... this is an enormously rich and highly penetrating and stimulating study, based on vast and perceptive reading and research. It is also novel in its substance and approach. * Barry Supple, The English Historical Review *An intriguing book...one of Britain's most subtle thinkers about how we live now. * Will Hutton, The Observer *[A] powerful argument... This is a book that uses the tools of economics to illuminate the myopic lens through which economics views the world. * Barry Schwartz, London Review of Books *Avner Offer inserts a moral dimension into the study of economic history that has been missing since R.H. Tawney, offering a warning of the undesirable consequences of the pursuit of individual self-interest. * M.J. Daunton, Economic History Review *...an intelligent, original, provocative, and moralistic book which should make historians think extremely seriously about important questions, even if they find themselves in disagreement with his approach. * M.J. Daunton, Economic History Review *This insightful book provides a fresh and refreshing new look at life in the United States and Britain over the past half century...provides invaluable insights. * John F Helliwell, EH.NET *A brilliantly argued book. * William Skidelsky, Prospect *..always fascinating and thought provoking, Offer's range of reference is remarkably broad. He travels confidently across the social-science spectrum. * Howard Davies, THES *In the 1960s and 1970s, economists started worrying about environmental and social limits to growth. Avner Offer has added a weighty new critique to this tradition. * The Economist *The book is an invaluable source of information on changing attitudes and practices in the US and Britain since the end of the second world war. * Samuel Brittan, Financial Times *an uncompromising work of scholarship * Martin Vander Weyer, The Spectator *...diligently and readably exposes the extent to which the past 25 years have forced people in the English-speaking world to believe that there is no alternative to dual-income workaholic consumerism, the "hedonic treadmill". * Oliver James, The Guardian *Sceptics who want some political muscle behind the diagnosis of our discontents will enjoy Avner Offer's account of why more means worse... * Boyd Tonkin and Christina Patterson, The Independent *Offer makes many compelling and interesting arguments that are backed by a wealth of data and analysis. * Charles Kenny, Business History Review *This is a wide, wise, and careful book. * Joy Parr, Journal of Economic History *Offer's narrative of a complex and difficult topic is masterful. * Barnaby Marsh, Economic and Human Biology *Offer's analysis of the complex relationship between economic markets and relationships and non-economic dynamics such as love, regard and esteem, and the impact of affluence on these interrelated systems, is superb. * Helen Laville, The Americas *The experience of reading The Challenge of Affluence is suffused with a pervasive suspicion that this might just be one of the most important books you have read. * Tim Jackson, Social Policy and Administration *a fascinating, ambitious, wide-ranging, freewheeling, and sometimes exasperating book about the perils of affluence. * Bruce G. Carruthers, American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Introduction ; PART ONE: EVALUATING AFFLUENCE ; 2. Economic Welfare Measures and Human Well-Being ; 3. Passions and Interests: Self-Control and Well-Being ; 4. Myopic and Rational Choice ; 5. Between the Gift and the Market: The Economy of Regard ; PART TWO: IN THE MARKETPLACE ; 6. The Mask of Intimacy: Advertising and Well-Being ; 7. Epidemics of Abundance: Body-Weight and Self-Control ; 8. Household Appliances and the Use of Time ; 9. The American Automobile Frenzy of the 1950s ; 10. Driving Prudently: American and European ; PART THREE: SELF AND OTHERS ; 11. Affluence and the Pursuit of Status ; 12. Inequality Hurts ; 13. All You Need is Love? Mating since the 1950s ; 14. Women and Children Last: The Ebbing of Commitment ; 15. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Collecting in a Consumer Society
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consuming the Entrepreneurial City Image Memory Spectacle
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Culture Industry
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a commodity. Now, in what they call the 'global culture industry', Scott Lash and Celia Lury argue that Adorno's worst nightmares have come true.Trade Review“A fascinating set of accounts of the changing role and meaning of selected ‘cultural objects’.” Area “Their empirical work is thorough and detailed, with each chapter providing a rich description of the history, life, and geography of the cultural object in question.” British Journal of Sociology “Scott Lash and Celia Lury reconceptualize our understanding of cultural industries in the context of globalization. By analysing and documenting the shift from representation to objects in contemporary production of meaning, they open new avenues for research on communication and culture: things materialize our imaginary, we communicate through objects. This pathbreaking study will stimulate the intellectual debate for years to come.” Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles “Scott Lash and Celia Lury throw down the gauntlet to liberal and Marxist economic and cultural theory. They discover meaning-making at the centre of both production and consumption. Totems rule the marketplace, and popular culture generates, displaces and energizes iconic brands. The circulation of economic value has become a conversation between symbolic things. Deeply researched and theoretically sophisticated, Global Culture Industry is an important book.” Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University “By tracing the lives of a series of cultural objects, Lash and Lury analyse with great insight how, in our age of globalization, culture comes to play an ever more central and intense role in economic production. In the process, they revise powerfully our traditional notions of the culture industry.” Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and MultitudeTable of Contents1. Introduction: Global Culture Industry. 2. Method: Ontology, Movement, Mapping. 3. The Biography of Euro 96: Branding the Event. 4. Art as Concept/Art as Media/Art as Life. 5. The Thingification of the Media: Animism and Animation. 6. The Mediation of Things: In Medias Res. 7. Flow: The Practices and Properties of Circulation. 8. Image, Markets and Display in Brazil. 9. Conclusion: Virtual Objects and the Social Imaginary.
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Rutgers University Press Vitamania Vitamins in American Culture Health and Medicine Series
Book SynopsisThis text examines the claims and counterclaims of scientists, manufacturers, retailers, politicians and consumers from the discovery of vitamins in the early 20th-century. It reveals the issues that have propelled the industry, and the ambivalence of Americans towards the authority of science.Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Perhaps your diet is too modern": the discovery of avitaminosis "They need it now": popular science and advertising in the interwar period "To protect the interest of the public": vitamins, marketing, and research "Superior knowledge": pharmacists, grocers, physicians, and Linus Pauling Miles one-a-day: the history of a vitamin dynasty Acnotabs: scientific evidence in the marketplace "Millions of consumers are being misled": the Food and Drug Administration and consumer protection "Preserve our health freedom": science in consumer politics "Intensity" makes the difference: vitamins in the political process Conclusion: vitamania?: vitamins in late twentieth-century United States
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Making of European Consumption Facing the American Challenge Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Book SynopsisAmerican ideals and models feature prominently in the master narrative of post-war European consumer societies. This book demonstrates that Europeans did not appropriate a homogenous notion of America, rather post-war European consumption was a process of selective appropriation of American elements.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Per Lundin 1. Negotiating American Modernity in Twentieth-century Europe; Mary Nolan 2. Americanization as Creolized Imagery: The Statue of Liberty During the Cold War; David Nye 3. Forging Europe's Foodways: The American Challenge; Karin Zachmann 4. Tackling Norwegian Cold: The Breakthrough of Home Freezing; Terje Finstad, Stig Kvaal, and Per Østby 5. Americanization and Authenticity: Italian Food Products and Practices in the 1950s and 1960s; Emanuela Scarpellini 6. Love and Hate in Industrial Design: Europe's Design Professionals and America in the 1950s; Kjetil Fallan 7. Confronting the Lure of American Tourism: Modern Accommodation in the Netherlands; Adri A. Albert de la Bruhèze 8. Exploring European Travel: The Swedish Package Tour; Thomas Kaiserfeld 9. Coping with Cars, Families, and Foreigners: Swedish Postwar Tourism; Per Lundin
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Lulu.com Democracy: A User's Guide
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World
Book SynopsisWe constantly hear about 'the consumer'. The 'consumer' has become a ubiquitous person in public discourse and academic research, but who is this person? The Making of the Consumer is the first interdisciplinary study that follows the evolution of the consumer in the modern world, ranging from imperial Britain to contemporary Papua New Guinea, and from the European Union to China. It makes a novel contribution by broadening the study of consumption from a focus on goods and symbols to the changing role and identity of consumers. Offering a historically informed picture of the rise of the consumer to its current prominence, authors discuss the consumer in relation to citizenship and ethics, law and economics, media, work and retailing.Contributors include:Donald Winch (University of Sussex)Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck College, University of London)Vanessa Taylor (Birkbeck College, University of London)Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel (CNRS: Centre de Recherches Historiques, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)Michelle Everson (Birkbeck College, University of London)Erika Rappaport (University of California, Santa Barbara)Uwe Spiekermann (Georg-August University, Gttingen)Jos Gamble (Royal Holloway University)Stephen Kline (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada)Frank Mort (University of Manchester)Ina Merkel (Philipps-Universitt, Marburg, Germany)James G. Carrier (Indiana University and Oxford Brookes University)Ben Fine (SOAS: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)Trade Review'At a time when it has become commonplace to accept 'the consumer' as a timeless and neutral concept, it is vital to question just when, where and how this particular figure appeared. An exciting and important collection that leads consumption studies forward into new territory, this book offers highly relevant and engaged social science which will have a broad appeal.'Professor Richard Wilk, Gender Studies and Anthropology, Indiana University, USA'Epitomizes the maturity reached by consumer studies. Framed by a far-reaching introduction, the wide-ranging and original essays develop a much-needed genealogical approach to the development of the consumer as a contested social figure embedded both in everyday life and in commercial and public knowledge.'Dr. Roberta Sassatelli, Department of Communication Studies, University of Bologna, Italy'This bracing collection arrives at a crucial moment in the development of consumption studies. It demonstrates the benefits and tensions tTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Knowing Consumers: Histories, Identities, Practices: An Introduction Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck College, University of London) Part One Defining Consumers: Consumers in Economics, Law and Civil Society 2. The Problematic Status of the Consumer in Orthodox Economic Thought Donald Winch (University of Sussex) 3. From Users to Consumers: Water Politics in Nineteenth-Century London Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck College, University of London) and Vanessa Taylor (Birkbeck College, University of London) 4. Women and the Ethics of Consumption in France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel (CNRS: Centre de Recherches Historiques, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) 5. Legal Constructions of the Consumer Michelle Everson (Birkbeck College, University of London) Part Two Commercial Relations: Retailers, Experts, and the Contested Consumer 6. Packaging China: Foreign Articles and Dangerous Tastes in the Mid-Victorian Tea Party Erika Rappaport (University of California, Santa Barbara) 7. From Neighbour to Consumer: The Transformation of Retailer-Consumer Relationships in Twentieth-Century Germany Uwe Spiekermann (Georg-August University, Goettingen) 8. Consumers with Chinese Characteristics? Local Customers in British and Japanese Multinational Stores in Contemporary China Jos Gamble (Royal Holloway University) 9. A Becoming Subject: Consumer Socialization in the Mediated Marketplace Stephen Kline (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada) Part Three Reframing Consumers and Consumption: Contemporary Culture and Political Economy 10. Competing Domains: Democratic Subjects and Consuming Subjects in Britain and the United States since 1945 Frank Mort (University of Manchester) 11. From Stigma to Cult: Changing Meanings in East German Consumer Culture Ina Merkel (Philipps-Universitt, Marburg, Germany) 12. The Limits of Culture: Political Economy and the Anthropology of Consumption James G. Carrier (Indiana University and Oxford Brookes University) 13. Addressing the Consumer Ben Fine (SOAS: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality
Book SynopsisOver the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This intriguing book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes, as well the social meaning of the practices themselves. Homes, offices, domestic appliances and clothes play a crucial role in our lives, but not many of us question exactly how and why we perform so many daily rituals associated with them. Showers, heating, air-conditioning and clothes washing are simply accepted as part of our normal, everyday lives, but clearly this was not always the case. When did the daily shower become de rigueur? What effect has air conditioning had on the siesta at one time an integral part of Mediterranean life and culture? This book interrogates the meaning and supposed normality of these practices and draws disturbing conclusions. There is clear evidence supporting the view that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces. Shove maintains that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption. This shrewd and engrossing analysis shows just how far the social meanings and practices of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have eluded us.Trade Review'Elizabeth Shove has delivered a refreshing and high quality piece of work that can be expected to have a lasting impact on the research agenda of the sociology of consumption...The book also offers a refreshing sort of methodological perspective to the study of everyday life.'Sociology Journal'Conceptually rich and strikingly original. With close attention to the most mundane of human activities and their objects, she advances both social theory and the cause of environmental reform.'Harvey Molotch, Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, New York University
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin's Russia
Book Synopsis'Life has become more joyous, comrades.' Josef Stalin, 1936Stalin's Russia is best known for its political repression, forced collectivization and general poverty. Caviar with Champagne presents an altogether different aspect of Stalin's rule that has never been fully analyzed - the creation of a luxury goods society. At the same time as millions were queuing for bread and starving, drastic changes took place in the cultural and economic policy of the country, which had important consequences for the development of Soviet material culture and the promotion of its ideals of consumption.The 1930s witnessed the first serious attempt to create a genuinely Soviet commercial culture that would rival the West. Government ministers took exploratory trips to America to learn about everything from fast food hamburgers to men's suits in Macy's. The government made intricate plans to produce high-quality luxury goods en masse, such as chocolate, caviar, perfume, liquor and assorted novelties. Perhaps the best symbol of this new cultural order was Soviet Champagne, which launched in 1936 with plans to produce millions of bottles by the end of the decade. Drawing on previously neglected archival material, Jukka Gronow examines how such new pleasures were advertised and enjoyed. He interprets Soviet-styled luxury goods as a form of kitsch and examines the ideological underpinnings behind their production.This new attitude toward consumption was accompanied by the promotion of new manners of everyday life. The process was not without serious ideological contradictions. Ironically, a factory worker living in the United States - the largest capitalist society in the world - would have been hard-pressed to afford caviar or champagne for a special occasion in the 1930s, but a Soviet worker theoretically could (assuming supplies were in stock). The Soviet example is unique since the luxury culture had to be created entirely from scratch, and the process was taken extremely serioTrade Review'Jukka Gronow describes the development in the hungry 1930s of a Soviet rhetoric of cultured living that privileged luxury commodities like champagne, caviar and perfume ... The thorough research in the archives it is based on makes Caviar with Champagne useful to scholars, and general readers will enjoy its vivid illustrations.'London Review of Books 'Jukka Gronow has applied his mastery of the every-day economy and taste cultures to the bewildering world of Stalinist consumerism. In an engaging style, he expertly explains how a luxury goods market came about in a socialist state in the midst of widespread poverty in the 1930s. Both Russians and foreign visitors familiar with Sovetskoe Shampanskoe and the old Soviet department stores and food and fashion shops will enjoy a thrill of discovery about their origins.' Richard Stites, Professor of History, Georgetown University'An excellent and innovative contribution to the study of consumer culture. By exploring in detail the
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Sean Kingston Publishing Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling
Book SynopsisBased primarily on a former coal-mining village in Northeast England, this book explores practices of inhabitation, from moving in or being modernized to the daily accommodation of sleep and children. It provides a demonstration of what happens to consumption research when it comes home and is positioned not in sites of exchange but within the hom
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Brill History of Korean Modern Retailing: Repressed Consumption and Retail Industry, Perceived Equality and Economic Growth
Book SynopsisIn History of Korean Modern Retailing Jong-Hyun Yi shows how the Korean retail industry has developed since the 1970s, focusing on the relationship among government, consumers and retail companies, especially the department store. While generally it is said that underdevelopment of the Korean retail industry in the 1970s was attributed to economic immaturity, he argues it was artificially formed by strong consumption repression by the government. He also examines how consumption repression contributed to economic growth. Such initial condition in developmental period is a crucial factor to explain other distinctions like explosive growth and remarkably short heyday of the department store afterward. With this, Jong-Hyun Yi traces the correlation between economic growth and stratification of the consumption since the 1970s. He proves that equality or inequality of consumption is a more influential factor for economic growth than that of income.
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Brill Communism and Consumerism: The Soviet Alternative to the Affluent Society
Book SynopsisConsumption in Russia and the former USSR has been lately studied as regards the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period. The history of Soviet consumption and the Soviet variety of consumerism in the 1950s-1990s has hardly been studied at all. This book concentrates on the late Soviet period but it also considers pre-WWII and even pre-revolutionary times.The book consists of articles, which survey the longue durée of Russian and Soviet consumer attitudes, Soviet ideology of consumption as indicated in texts concerning fashion, the world of Soviet fashion planning and the survival strategies of the Soviet consumer complaining against sub-standard goods and services in a command economy. There's also a case study concerning the uses of concepts with anti-consumerist content. Contributors include: Lena Bogdanova, Olga Gurova, Timo Vihavainen and Larissa Zakharova.
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Brill A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Movements and Businesses
Book SynopsisWith contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia, illustrate the wide variety of forms that consumer co-operatives have taken; the different political, economic and social contexts in which they have operated; the ideological influences on their development; and the reasons for their expansion and decline at different times. The book also explores the connections between co-operatives in different parts of the world, challenging assumptions that the story of global co-operation can be traced exclusively to the 1844 Rochdale Co-operative Society. Contributors are: Amélie Artis, Nikola Balnave, Patrizia Battilani, Johann Brazda, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, María Eugenia Castelao Caruana, Kay-Wah Chan, Bernard Degen, Danièle Demoustier, Espen Ekberg, Dulce Freire, Katarina Friberg, Mary Hilson, Mary Ip, Florian Jagschitz, Pernilla Jonsson, Kim Hyung-mi, Akira Kurimoto, Simon Lambersens, Catherine C LeGrand, Ian MacPherson, Francisco José Medina-Albaladejo, Alain Mélo, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Silke Neunsinger, Greg Patmore, Joana Dias Pereira, Michael Prinz, Siegfried Rom, Robert Schediwy, Corrado Secchi, Geert Van Goethem, Griselda Verbeke, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Mirta Vuotto, Anthony Webster and John Wilson.Trade Review"Anyone working on the cooperative movement will have this book on their bookshelves. It very much assembles the state of the art in the history of consumer cooperation." - Stefan Berger, "What is New in the History of Social Movements?", in: Moving the Social, Volume 59 (2018), pp. 115-127 [DOI: 10.13154/mts.59.2018.115-127] "By illuminating the divergent histories of consumer cooperative movements in industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, A Global History makes an important contribution to scholarship. [...] Hilson and her collaborators will remain widely read for decades." - Carl J. Strikwerda, in: International Review of Social History 63:1 (2018), pp. 127–142 [DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000670] "The book is not uncritical of divisions between co-ops over markets, or of the tensions between cheap goods, colonial production, and ethical matters, or of failures such as the Berkeley co-op. Like its subject, this book is unwieldy, yet worldly; its ambitions are greater than the sum of its parts, but those parts are very rewarding in their detail—and those ambitions are inestimably worthy, enduring, and global." - Lawrence Black, in: Economic History Review 71:2 (2018), pp. 692-694Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Introduction Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore 2 Co-operative History: Movements and Businesses Mary Hilson SECTION 1: Origins and Models Introduction to Section 1 Mary Hilson 3 Rochdale and Beyond: Consumer Co-operation in Britain before 1945 Mary Hilson 4 The Belgian Co-operative Model: Elements of Success and Failure Geert Van Goethem 5 History of Consumer Co-operatives in France: From the Conquest of Consumption by the Masses to the Challenge of Mass Consumption Simon Lambersens, Amélie Artis, Danièle Demoustier and Alain Mélo 6 Consumer Co-operation in the Nordic Countries, c. 1860–1939 Mary Hilson 7 Canadian and us Catholic Promotion of Co-operatives in Central America and the Caribbean and Their Political Implications Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens and Catherine C LeGrand 8 African American Consumer Co-operation: History and Global Connections Jessica Gordon Nembhard 9 A Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative Trade Katarina Friberg SECTION 2: Challenges to Democracy – State Intervention Introduction to Section 2 Silke Neunsinger 10 German Co-operatives: Rise and Fall 1850–1970 Michael Prinz 11 The Rise and Fall of Austria’s Consumer Co-operatives Johann Brazda, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom and Robert Schediwy 12 Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century Dulce Freire and Joana Dias Pereira 13 Consumer Co-operatives in Spain 1860–2010 Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo 14 The Experience of the Consumer Co-operative Movement in Korea: Its Break off and Rebirth Kim Hyung-mi 15 Consumer Co-operatives in the People’s Republic of China – A Development Path Shaped by Its Economic and Political History Mary Ip and Kay-Wah Chan SECTION 3: Challenges to Business Introduction to Section 3 Greg Patmore 16 Managing Consumer Co-operatives: A Historical Perspective Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave 17 Patterns, Limitations and Associations: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Canada, 1828 to the Present Ian MacPherson 18 Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore 19 Consumer Co-operation in a Changing Economy: The Case of Argentina Mirta Vuotto, Griselda Verbeke and María Eugenia Castelao Caruana 20 Fighting Monopoly and Enhancing Democracy: A Historical Overview of us Consumer Co-operatives Greg Patmore 21 Affluence and Decline: Consumer Co-operatives in Postwar Britain Corrado Secchi SECTION 4 Consolidation Introduction to Section 4 Mary Hilson 22 Going Global. The Rise of the cws as an International Commercial and Political Actor, 1863–1950: Scoping an Agenda for Further Research Anthony Webster, John F Wilson and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh 23 Consumer Co-operation in Italy: A Network of Co-operatives with a Multi-class Constituency Patrizia Battilani 24 Consumer Societies in Switzerland: From Local Self-help Organizations to a Single National Co-operative Bernard Degen 25 From Commercial Trickery to Social Responsibility: Marketing in the Swedish Co-operative Movement in the Early Twentieth Century Pernilla Jonsson 26 Building Consumer Democracy: The Trajectory of Consumer Co-operation in Japan Akira Kurimoto 27 Against the Tide: Understanding the Commercial Success of Nordic Consumer Co-operatives, 1950–2010 Espen Ekberg Conclusion 28 Conclusion: Consumer Co-operatives Past, Present and Future Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore Bibliography Index
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Brill Shopper's Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture
Book SynopsisShopper’s Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture deals with the cultural, social and economic impact of retail stores on American society. It has chapters on some of the most important retail genres, such as Internet stores (Amazon.com), department stores (Neiman Marcus), coffee shops (Starbucks), big-box stores (Walmart, Costco) and a number of other kinds of stores such as dollar stores, malls, and farmer’s markets.Table of ContentsShopper’s Paradise. Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture Arthur Asa Berger Abstract Keywords 1 Introduction 2 Amazon.com 3 Department Stores 4 Shopping Malls 5 Supermarkets 6 Farmers Markets 7 Costco 8 Dollar Stores 9 Neiman Marcus (Formerly Neiman-Marcus) 10 CVS (Consumer Value Store) Pharmacies 11 Wal-Mart/Walmart 12 Starbucks 13 Consumer Cultures 14 A Consumer’s Odyssey: Everyday Life’s Routines and Its Many Stores 15 Coda Acknowledgments References List of Figures
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Brill Auditory Contributions to Food Perception and Consumer Behaviour
Book SynopsisWhat we hear before and/or while we eat and drink often affects our tasting experiences. The focus of Auditory Contributions to Food Perception and Consume Behaviour is to provide a state-of-the-art summary on how such music and ambient inputs can influence our expectations, our purchasing behaviour, as well as our product experience. Much of the research collected together in this volume relates to ‘sonic seasoning’: This is where music/soundscapes are especially chosen, or else designed/composed, in order to correspond to, and hence hopefully to modify the associated taste/aroma/mouthfeel/flavour in food and beverages. The various chapters collected together in this volume provide a state-of-the-art summary of this intriguing and emerging field of research, as well as highlighting some of the key directions for future research. Contributors are Sue Bastian, Thadeus L. Beekman, Jo Burzynska, Andrew Childress, Ilja Croijmans, Silvana Dakduk , Alexandra Fiegel, Apratim Guha, Ryuta Kawashima, Bruno Mesz, Kosuke Motoki, Rui Nouchi, Felipe Reinoso-Carvalho, Pablo Riera, Marijn Peters Rit, Toshiki Saito, Han-Seok Seo, Mariano Sigman, Laura J. Speed, Charles Spence, Motoaki Sugiura, Marcos Trevisan, Carlos Velasco, Johan Wagemans, and Qian Janice Wang.Table of ContentsContents Note on Contributors Introduction to Auditory Contributions to Food Perception and Consumer Behaviour C. SPENCE, F. REINOSO-CARVALHO, C. VELASCO and Q. J. WANG Extrinsic Auditory Contributions to Food Perception & Consumer Behaviour: an Interdisciplinary Review C. SPENCE, F. REINOSO-CARVALHO, C. VELASCO and Q. J. WANG Variations in Food Acceptability with Respect to Pitch, Tempo, and Volume Levels of Background Music A. FIEGEL, A. CHILDRESS, T. L. BEEKMAN and H.-S. SEO High-Tempo and Stinky: High Arousal Sound–Odor Congruence Affects Product Memory M. PETERS RIT, I. CROIJMANS and L. J. SPEED Not Just Another Pint! The Role of Emotion Induced by Music on the Consumer’s Tasting Experience F. REINOSO-CARVALHO, S. DAKDUK, J. WAGEMANS and C. SPENCE A Sweet Voice: The Influence of Cross-Modal Correspondences Between Taste and Vocal Pitch on Advertising Effectiveness K. MOTOKI, T. SAITO, R. NOUCHI, R. KAWASHIMA and M. SUGIURA Taste the Bass: Low Frequencies Increase the Perception of Body and Aromatic Intensity in Red Wine J. BURZYNSKA, Q. J. WANG, C. SPENCE and S. E. P. BASTIAN Analysing the Impact of Music on the Perception of Red Wine via Temporal Dominance of Sensations Q. J. WANG, B. MESZ, P. RIERA, M. TREVISAN, M. SIGMAN, A. GUHA and C. SPENCE Index
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Brill Things Change: Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020
Book SynopsisSince the early nineteenth century, the things which Black South Africans have had in their homes have changed completely. They have adopted things like tables, chairs, knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups and saucers, iron pots, beds, blankets, European clothing, and later electronic apparatus. Thus they claimed modernity, respectability and political inclusion. This book is the first systematic analysis of this development. It argues that the desire to possess such goods formed a major part of the drive behind the anti-apartheid struggle, and that the demand to consume has significantly influenced both the economy and the politics of the country.
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Wageningen Academic Publishers Changing families and their lifestyles
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises contributions from several fields of study in the social sciences. The different disciplinary angles intersect at the level of the research subjects: families, households and consumers. Together they reflect a broad field of study that always had its particular niche in Wageningen as ‘household and consumer studies’. The five separate parts: the formation and dissolution of families; stratification and inequality; consumer and household behaviour; leisure time; and hygiene, health and society, nicely reflect the broadness of this field. The eighteen contributions in this volume were purposefully selected, not only based on their contents and quality, but also because of their relationship to the work of Kees de Hoog, who retired this year. Although Kees de Hoog is a professor of family sociology and family policy, his work throughout the years has extended far beyond that and covers the fields that are captured by the different parts in this book. Therefore the contributions in this volume comprise an interesting read for scholars all over the world who have an interest in families, consumers, households, and the ways they interface.
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Edinburgh University Press Special Affects
Book SynopsisExamines the translation of classical Hollywood into Disney's feature films from a Deleuzian perspective. This book retells the emergence of Disney animation and classical Hollywood cinema from the perspective of affect and the embodied modes of generating affection.
£85.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fashion in Altermodern China
Book SynopsisFeng Jie is Professor at Hainan University of China. She is the co-author of Art Aesthetics and Introduction of Art, and is a co-curator at Tate Exchange in Tate Modern; as well as the Director of the Neutral Institute.Trade ReviewAn eloquent, expansive, theoretically complex and yet also highly entertaining examination of Chinese fashion … Through historical garments with contemporary forms like the qipao Feng eruditely traces larger socio-cultural shifts in China, particularly changing female identity and the complexities of contemporary Chinese womanhood. * Toby Slade, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *Readers will love this study of fashion in China for its informed discussion of iconic developments in China’s modern dress history … Thoughtful in its approach, provocative in its hypotheses, it traverses the rocky terrain of politics and culture in an ‘altermodern’ China as the author searches for a space in which fashion-in-China might be viewed on its own terms. * Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne, Australia *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Fashion and Complexity 2. Modern China 3. Uniform, Uniformities and Gender 4. Altermodern China 5. Brand Neutral Coda: Fashion Degree Zero References Index
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Doll
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessedby our aspirations. They''re commonly used as a tool to teach mothering to young girls, but more often they are avatars of the idealized feminine self. (The word doll even acts as shorthand for a desirable woman.) They instruct girls what to strive for in society, reinforcing dominant patriarchal, heteronormative, white views around class, bodies, history, and celebrity, in insidious ways. Girls' dolls occupy the opposite space of boys' action figures, which represent masculinity, authority, warfare, and conflict. By analyzing dolls from 17th century Japanese Hinamatsuri festivals, to the 80s American Girl Dolls, and even to today's bitmoji, Doll reveals how the objects society encourages us to play with as girls shape the women we become.Object LessonsTrade ReviewSome of the information is jaw dropping ... It is very readable and relatable. * Is This Mutton blog *The fascinating facts [Hart] uncovered about the women behind the industry and her observations about how dolls are emotional vectors—simultaneously objects of scorn and adoration—are revelatory and relatable. * Brevity *Maria Teresa Hart’s Doll is a fascinating personal and public exploration of the deeper meanings behind the plastic, polymer, and porcelain playthings that still shape American girlhood. * Susan Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Unhooked, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, and Barbie: Sixty Years of Inspiration *Doll is a heartfelt, intimate, and clever study of objects that terrify some and thrill others. Maria Teresa Hart answers the question "what makes dolls so special, anyway?" while giving us new perspective on these tiny, fragile mirrors. * Allison Horrocks, co-host of the American Girls podcast *Aqua once sang of Barbie, “life in plastic, it’s fantastic.” The same could also be said of the experience of reading this great contribution by Maria Teresa Hart to the Object Lessons series. Through an analysis of “doll culture” Hart demonstrates the value of thinking with things. Dolls have much to teach us about issues of gender, sexuality, and girlhood. Through an exploration of different brands and styles, Hart reveals the stories we tell with and about dolls, and what thinking about them can tell us about our world. * Mary Mahoney, co-host of the American Girls podcast *Entertaining and brilliant, this deceptively slim book packs all the potent drama and intrigue of the world of childhood doll play itself. A fascinating exploration of self and society that is equal parts enlightening, nostalgic, and insightful. An important addition to the literature of feminist cultural history that readers are bound to return to again and again. * Summer Brennan, author of High Heel *Another spectacular part of this (Object Lessons) series. So much packed into such a small package, and yet so immensely readable as well. * Randomly Yours, Alex *Table of ContentsIntroduction Play Date #1 1. Bodies that Matter: The Barbie Doll Play Date #2 2. All that Money Can Buy: The Porcelain Doll Play Date #3 3. The Stories We Tell: The American Girl Doll Play Date #4 4. How to Live Forever: The Celebrity Doll Play Date #5 5. Virtual Proxy: The Avatar “Doll” Conclusion Acknowledgment Index
£9.49
The University of Chicago Press Buying and Believing Sri Lankan Advertising and
Book SynopsisDrawing upon fieldwork conducted over 30 years, the author to this text examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to Sri Lankanize commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially creating new culture.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press The Modernity Bluff Crime Consumption and
Book SynopsisIn Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth. The author argues that they engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticity - highlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself.Trade Review"The Modernity Bluff takes its place comfortably with the best writing on African youth, cities, and popular culture - Cole, De Boeck, Mbembe, Nyamanjoh, Simone, Weiss, White - and gives an utterly original angle for understanding the cultural underpinnings of the current conflict in Cote d'Ivoire. Sasha Newell knows both the contemporary and classic Africanist literatures. He also brings to bear a considerable amount of specialist theory to explain the ways the performance of 'bluff,' seemingly a king of consumerist simulacrum, can actually create something out of nothing." (Mike McGovern, Yale University)"
£90.00
The University of Chicago Press The Modernity Bluff Crime Consumption and
Book SynopsisIn Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth. The author argues that they engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticity - highlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself.Trade Review"The Modernity Bluff takes its place comfortably with the best writing on African youth, cities, and popular culture - Cole, De Boeck, Mbembe, Nyamanjoh, Simone, Weiss, White - and gives an utterly original angle for understanding the cultural underpinnings of the current conflict in Cote d'Ivoire. Sasha Newell knows both the contemporary and classic Africanist literatures. He also brings to bear a considerable amount of specialist theory to explain the ways the performance of 'bluff,' seemingly a kind of consumerist simulacrum, can actually create something out of nothing." (Mike McGovern, Yale University)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Speculative Communities
Book SynopsisSpeculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.Trade Review"Speculative Communities is a masterful critique of the financialisastion of everyday life, which provides an innovative account of the role of speculation and uncertainty in shaping the way we understand, and act within, the world. Komporozos-Athanasiou masterfully blends economic theory with political and sociological analysis to deliver a fascinating reading of how finance has colonised our imaginations, and the challenges this process poses to movements seeking to construct a collective sense of what life beyond capitalism might look like. Speculative Communities is both a novel and exciting academic contribution, and a critical reference point for those seeking to organise in a world defined by the logic of speculation."--Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen: How to Save the World From FinancialisationTable of ContentsKey Terms Introduction Part 1: Speculation: Finance and Capitalism 1. The Rise of Speculative Communities 2. A Genealogy of Speculative Imagination: Old Spirits of Capitalism Part 2: Spectacle: Finance and Society 3. Speculative Technologies and the New Homo speculans 4. Speculative Intimacies Part 3: Specter: Finance and Polity 5. Financialized Populism and New Nationalisms 6. Counter-speculations Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£78.85
The University of Chicago Press Speculative Communities
Book SynopsisSpeculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.Trade Review"Speculative Communities is a masterful critique of the financialisastion of everyday life, which provides an innovative account of the role of speculation and uncertainty in shaping the way we understand, and act within, the world. Komporozos-Athanasiou masterfully blends economic theory with political and sociological analysis to deliver a fascinating reading of how finance has colonised our imaginations, and the challenges this process poses to movements seeking to construct a collective sense of what life beyond capitalism might look like. Speculative Communities is both a novel and exciting academic contribution, and a critical reference point for those seeking to organise in a world defined by the logic of speculation."--Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen: How to Save the World From FinancialisationTable of ContentsKey Terms Introduction Part 1: Speculation: Finance and Capitalism 1. The Rise of Speculative Communities 2. A Genealogy of Speculative Imagination: Old Spirits of Capitalism Part 2: Spectacle: Finance and Society 3. Speculative Technologies and the New Homo speculans 4. Speculative Intimacies Part 3: Specter: Finance and Polity 5. Financialized Populism and New Nationalisms 6. Counter-speculations Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£24.00
Columbia University Press An AllConsuming Century
Book SynopsisAn All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over the hundred years between 1900 and 2000 and why for the first time in history there are no practical limits to consumerism.Trade ReviewThe best survey yet written of the history of modern American consumer society... Avoiding the extremes of celebration and condemnation that too often pass for analysis, Cross's searching book is imbued with a generous concern for the revival of an active, democratic and participatory public sphere. -- Lawrence B. Glickman The Nation Cross shows how 'private, widespread and ephemeral commodity culture'has altered daily life, 'especially how people relate to nature and to one another.'The author of fine historical studies of various aspects of consumer culture, Cross is particularly well placed to undertake such a daunting task. Journal of American History By telling the story of how consumerism trumped social forces from Prohibition to the Simplicity movement, Cross brilliantly re-evaluates the bonds of family and community sold off to pay for the stuff with which we now populate our lives. San Francisco Chronicle It takes a historian to provide an appreciation of how far Americans have wandered from the days when consumerism was slightly suspect, and Gary Cross is superbly up to the task. -- Alan Wolfe The New Republic Cross has done prodigious work on the era that redefined the pursuit of happiness as the unbounded desire for goods. Building on an impressive range of scholarship, he lays out the sinews of a dazzling 100 years of American productivity chock full of the economic equivalents of flying rugs and magic lamps. -- Tom Engelhardt Los Angeles Times Book Review [An] absorbing cultural history of how Americans' personal and public identities have evolved in relationship with consumer goods. Publishers Weekly This readable modern history is enlivened. The Economist Thought-provoking... Cross has offered a perceptive view of how American identities have evolved and are perceived in relation to a thriving consumer culture. -- Margaret Walsh, University of Nottingham History The great merit of this book is that it characterizes consumerism as a social and political force. Unlike many critics who simply reduce consumerism to the individual pursuit of material comfort, Cross casts it as a compelling ideology that concretely expresses the major ideals that have guided the last century: liberty and democracy. -- Norman Wirzba Christian ReflectionTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Irony of a Century 2. Setting the Course, 1900--1930 3. Promises of More, 1930--1960 4. Coping with Abundance 5. A New Consumerism, 1960--1980 6. Markets Triumphant, 1980--2000 7. An Ambiguous Legacy Index
£25.20
Indiana University Press Balkan Blues
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroduction1. Mente: Consumer Grievances2. "Needs," Rights, and Protection3. Consumer Activism?4. Consumption as Civic Engagement 5. Consumer Politics after State SocialismEpilogue: "Enough is Enough."—The Moral Commitment of the StateAppendix. Notes on Fieldwork: An East Asian Ethnographer in Eastern EuropeBibliography Index
£49.30
Yale University Press Austerity
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£16.71
John Wiley & Sons Inc A Year Without Made in China
Book SynopsisA Year Without Made in China provides you with a thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining account of how the most populous nation on Earth influences almost every aspect of our daily lives. Drawing on her years as an award-winning journalist, author Sara Bongiorni fills this book with engaging stories and anecdotes of her family''s attempt to outrun China''s reachby boycotting Chinese made productsand does a remarkable job of taking a decidedly big-picture issue and breaking it down to a personal level.Table of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE Farewell, My Concubine 5 CHAPTER TWO Red Shoes 31 CHAPTER THREE Rise and China 47 CHAPTER FOUR Manufacturing Dissent 63 CHAPTER FIVE A Modest Proposal 79 CHAPTER SIX Mothers of Invention 95 CHAPTER SEVEN Summer of Discontent 111 CHAPTER EIGHT Red Tide 127 CHAPTER NINE China Dreams 141 CHAPTER TEN Meltdown 155 CHAPTER ELEVEN The China Season 175 CHAPTER TWELVE Road’s End 191 Epilogue 219 About the Author 229 Index 231
£11.39
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Descriptive Analysis in Sensory Evaluation
Book SynopsisA comprehensive review of the techniques and applications of descriptive analysis Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline used to evoke, measure, analyse and interpret responses to products perceived through the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing. It is used to reveal insights into the ways in which sensory properties drive consumer acceptance and behaviour, and to design products that best deliver what the consumer wants. Descriptive analysis is one of the most sophisticated, flexible and widely used tools in the field of sensory analysis. It enables objective description of the nature and magnitude of sensory characteristics for use in consumer-driven product design, manufacture and communication. Descriptive Analysis in Sensory Evaluation provides a comprehensive overview of a wide range of traditional and recently-developed descriptive techniques, including history, theory, practical considerations, statistical analysis, applications, case studies and future Table of ContentsEditor Biographies, ix List of Contributors, xi Preface to the Series, xv Preface, xix Section 1: Introduction 1 Introduction to Descriptive Analysis, 3Sarah E. Kemp, May Ng, Tracey Hollowood and Joanne Hort 2 General Considerations, 41Sylvie Issanchou 3 Setting Up and Training a Descriptive Analysis Panel, 81Margaret A. Everitt 4 Panel Quality Management: Performance, Monitoring and Proficiency, 113Carol Raithatha and Lauren Rogers 5 Statistical Analysis of Descriptive Data, 165Anne Hasted Section 2: Techniques 6 Consensus Methods for Descriptive Analysis, 213Edgar Chambers IV 7 Original Flavor and Texture Profile and Modified/Derivative Profile Descriptive Methods, 237Alejandra M. Muñoz and Patricia A. Keane 8 Quantitative Descriptive Analysis, 287Joel L. Sidel, Rebecca N. Bleibaum and K.W. Clara Tao 9 Spectrum™ Method, 319Clare Dus, Lee Stapleton, Amy Trail, Annlyse Retiveau Krogmann and Gail Vance Civille 10 Quantitative Flavour Profiling, 355Sophie Davodeau and Christel Adam 11 A5daptive Profile Method®, 389Alejandra M. Muñoz 12 Ranking and Rank-Rating, 447Graham Cleaver 13 Free Choice Profiling, 493Pieter H. Punter 14 Flash Profile Method, 513Wender L.P. Bredie, Jing Liu, Christian Dehlholm and Hildegarde Heymann 15 Projective Mapping & Sorting Tasks, 535Dominique Valentin, Sylvie Chollet, Michael Nestrud and Hervé Abdi 16 Polarized Sensory Positioning, 561Gastón Ares, Lucía Antúnez, Luis de Saldamando and Ana Giménez 17 Check-All-That-Apply and Free Choice Description, 579Dominic Buck and Sarah E. Kemp Section 3: Applications 18 Application of Descriptive Sensory Analysis to Food and Drink Products, 611Cindy Beeren 19 Application of Descriptive Analysis to Non-Food Products, 647Anne Churchill and Ruth Greenaway Section 4: Summary 20 Comparison of Descriptive Analysis Methods, 681Alejandra M.
£157.45
University of California Press Domesticating the World
Book SynopsisExploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, this book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders.Trade Review"Domesticating the World comes at an important moment in the development of globalization studies." -- Jessica Lynn Achberger World History Bltn "This is truly a remarkable and important book. It is extremely well written, includes some wonderful pictures and illustrations, and is very accessible and engaging for scholars and students." -- Dorothy L. Hodgson American Historical Review "The breadth and methodological approach, along with the singularity of its content, make this book a highly necessary addition to the ever-growing body of scholarship on globalization." Journal Of World HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Histories and Globality 1. Similitude and Global Relationships: Self-Representation in Mutsamudu 2. The Social Logics of Need: Consumer Desire in Mombasa 3. The Global Repercussions of Consumerism: East African Consumers and Industrialization 4. Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Domestication: Consumer Imports in Zanzibar 5. Symbolic Subjection and Social Rebirth: Objectification in Urban Zanzibar 6. Picturesque Contradictions: New Taxonomies of East Africa Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£50.40
University of California Press The Noodle Narratives
Book SynopsisTasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around the world by millions, they appeal to young and old, affluent and impoverished alike. This title examines the history, manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of instant noodles.Trade Review"Three anthropologists, intrigued by the presence of instant noodles everywhere from the wealthiest college campuses to the poorest cities of the developing world, decided to chronicle the food’s emergence in Japan, the United States, and Papua New Guinea. In their new book, The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century, Deborah Gewertz of Amherst College, Frederick Errington of Trinity College, and Tatsuro Fujikura at Kyoto University show just how much can depend on one affordable, portable, dehydrated food." * Boston Globe *"Ask about the foods that have conquered the world and you're likely to hear about Coca-Cola and McDonald's Big Macs. But the most successful industrial food ever produced flies far under the radar. And it has finally been outed by three anthropologists in a fascinating new book The Noodle Narratives, which analyzes the precipitous rise—or "brilliant career," as the authors say—of instant ramen, from its birth in postwar Japan to its sales of just over 100 billion servings worldwide in 2012." * The Salt *"This book is a tour of the past, present and future of "one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever,” and makes the case that its humble role will become even more important in feeding an increasingly huge human population." * Food Management *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table Acknowledgments Introduction: Instant Noodles as Quotidian and Ubiquitous 1. The Taste of Something Good 2. Japanese Instant Noodles in the Market and on the Mind 3. What Instant Noodles Reflect and Affect in America 4. Instant Noodles for the Bottom of the Pyramid in Papua New Guinea 5. Making (and Unmaking?) a Big Food World Conclusion: Big Food for a Huge Population? Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Falling Behind
Book SynopsisExplores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America. This title explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off expenditure cascades that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class.Trade Review"A compact example of a professional economist brilliantly deploying the tools of social science to illuminate the human condition.” * New York Times *"This is an excellent book, written in an easy, understandable manner, alive with important examples of how our society spends its money and who are the winners and losers." * Booklist *“Falling Behind is a short book in pages, but not in insight or wisdom. If you have not read a previous Frank book, now is the time.” * BeyondChron *Table of ContentsPreface to the 2013 Edition Preface to the 2007 Edition 1. Introduction 2. Recent Changes in Income and Wealth Inequality 3. Inequality, Happiness, and Health 4. Envy or Context? 5. The Rising Cost of Adequate 6. Why Do We Care about Rank? 7. What Types of Consumption Are Most Sensitive to Context? 8. How Can Middle-Class Families Afford to Keep Up? 9. Smart for One, Dumb for All 10. Looking Ahead 11. Lessons for Public Policy 12. Reflections Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism
Book SynopsisPicture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.Trade Review"Warnes shows us how globalization, mechanized farming, refrigeration, and mass consumerism affect the way world consumers shop for food in supermarkets and how the global industrial food system encourages consumers to overeat." * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Entrance 1. Inside Views 2. Aristocratic Baskets 3. In the Supermarket 4. The Late Cart 5. Carts UnchainedExit Notes Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£18.90
Harvard University Press Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers
Book SynopsisBauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the “knowledge class” to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society.Trade ReviewZygmunt Bauman's voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Weber's spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time. -- Ron Eyerman, Yale UniversityThis thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the world's most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form. -- Paul Gilroy, London School of EconomicsTable of Contents* Introduction: Threats or Chances? * What Chance of Ethics in the Globalized World of Consumers? * Categorial Murder, or the Legacy of the Twentieth Century and How to Remember It * Freedom in the Liquid-Modern Era * Hurried Life, or Liquid-Modern Challenges to Education * Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or the Arts between Administration and the Markets * Making the Planet Hospitable to Europe * Notes * Index
£24.26
Pluto Press This Little Kiddy Went to Market The Corporate
Book SynopsisHow consumerist values are forced upon children through education and medicationTrade Review'Beder's analysis is comprehensive, steely and clinical' -- Harold Pinter'Outstanding ... This is such an important book that I would put it on every school curriculum' -- John Pilger'A chilling assessment of modern commercial culture and how it distorts childhood, corrupts civic institutions, and endangers the planet' -- Alex Molnar is Professor of Education Policy and Director of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit at Arizona State University. He is the author of Giving Kids the Business and School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal To Market CommodityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Turning Children into Consumers 2. Turning Play into Business 3. Branding Childish Identities 4. Teaching Consumer Values 5. Turning Schools into Businesses 6. Making Schools Accountable 7. Business Campaigns 8. Made to Order 9. Dumbing Down Future Citizens 10. Teaching Corporate Values 11. Privatising Schools 12. Turning Schools into Markets 13. Privatisation Proponents 14. Controlling Wayward Children Conclusion Notes
£24.29
Pluto Press This Little Kiddy Went to Market The Corporate
Book SynopsisHow consumerist values are forced upon children through education and medicationTrade Review'Beder's analysis is comprehensive, steely and clinical' -- Harold Pinter'Outstanding ... This is such an important book that I would put it on every school curriculum' -- John Pilger'A chilling assessment of modern commercial culture and how it distorts childhood, corrupts civic institutions, and endangers the planet' -- Alex Molnar is Professor of Education Policy and Director of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit at Arizona State University. He is the author of Giving Kids the Business and School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal To Market CommodityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Turning Children into Consumers 2. Turning Play into Business 3. Branding Childish Identities 4. Teaching Consumer Values 5. Turning Schools into Businesses 6. Making Schools Accountable 7. Business Campaigns 8. Made to Order 9. Dumbing Down Future Citizens 10. Teaching Corporate Values 11. Privatising Schools 12. Turning Schools into Markets 13. Privatisation Proponents 14. Controlling Wayward Children Conclusion Notes
£72.25
Pluto Press The Experience Society
Book SynopsisWhat is the consequence of commodifying experiences?Trade Review‘Well written and extensively researched, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of consumption and experience in contemporary society' -- Garry Crawford, co-author of 'Video Games as Culture''An enlightening grand tour of the neoliberal experience economy. Probing beneath the ideological rhetoric of self-expressive consumer choices, Miles reveals how the psycho-social effects of the experience economy are governed by new forms of capitalist influence' -- Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business'Takes us on a powerful analytic journey that exposes the underpinning ideological processes that define who and what we are as citizens of a society driven by consumerism' -- Pauline Maclaran, Professor of Marketing & Consumer Research in the School of Management at Royal HollowayTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introducing the Experience Society 2. Consumption, Identity, Experience 3. Leisure and Tourism 4. Work Experience 5. Technologies of Self 6. Space, Place and the Architecture of Experience 7. The Spectacle of Sport 8. The Coffee Shop Experience 9. Consumer Capitalism Rebooted References Index
£72.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Consumer Culture and Modernity by Don Slater
Book Synopsisaeo This is a comprehensive survey of theories of consumer culture, making it an ideal introduction to the field. aeo Slater presents consumer culture as part of a broader debate about the nature and development of modern societies, rather than just a contemporary or postmodern issue.Trade Review"A book of unusual clarity combined with careful and considered assessment of the plethora of arguments that have arisen about the fundamental nature of consumption and modernity from the Enlightenment to the present day. This is the best synthesis of the literature on consumption that has yet been produced and an ideal textbook for anyone wishing to teach or to learn about the spectrum of theoretical approaches that have been developed to account for one of the key issues of our time." Daniel Miller, University College London "An ambitious and interesting review of consumer studies. Slater shows a real talent for exposition across a range of disciplines and approaches. There is much ground to cover and he does it admirably." SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Consumer Culture and Modernity. 2. The Freedoms of the Market. 3. Consumption versus 'Culture'. 4. The Culture of Commodities. 5. The Meanings of Things. 6. The Uses of Things. 7. New Times?. Afterword. Bibliography. Index.
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Shopping Social and Cultural Perspectives
Book SynopsisWe spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work. So why is it not taken more seriously? The answer: we take shopping for granted. Indeed, culture can only work by being taken for granted.Trade Review"Jenny Shaw demonstrates that shopping is far more than buying, having, or hoarding possessions. Read Shopping and you will see that shopping possesses us. Each chapter shows how shopping is deeply entwined with our passions and memories, our passage through life, and social class. It's a wonderful sociology of everyday life."Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and City University Graduate Center and author of Point of Purchase "A timely, informative and engaging account, highly readable and refreshingly free of jargon. This book stands out for its skilful and seamless integration of a wealth of detailed observation with a strongly theoretical approach. An invaluable tool in courses on culture, consumption and everyday life."Ekaterina Makarova, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Shopping in the RainChapter 2 From Thrift to Spendthrift: How Buying Turned Into SpendingChapter 3 A la Recherche des Shops PerdusChapter 4 Signposts and Shopping Milestones: Too Old For Topshop?Chapter 5 Shopping: A Rough Guide to GenderChapter 6 Putting on a Posh VoiceChapter 7 Conclusion: Taking it all For GrantedBibliography
£42.75
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Shopping Social and cultural perspectives
Book SynopsisWe spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work. So why is it not taken more seriously? The answer: we take shopping for granted. Indeed, culture can only work by being taken for granted.Trade Review"Jenny Shaw demonstrates that shopping is far more than buying, having, or hoarding possessions. Read Shopping and you will see that shopping possesses us. Each chapter shows how shopping is deeply entwined with our passions and memories, our passage through life, and social class. It's a wonderful sociology of everyday life."Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and City University Graduate Center and author of Point of Purchase "A timely, informative and engaging account, highly readable and refreshingly free of jargon. This book stands out for its skilful and seamless integration of a wealth of detailed observation with a strongly theoretical approach. An invaluable tool in courses on culture, consumption and everyday life."Ekaterina Makarova, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Shopping in the RainChapter 2 From Thrift to Spendthrift: How Buying Turned Into SpendingChapter 3 A la Recherche des Shops PerdusChapter 4 Signposts and Shopping Milestones: Too Old For Topshop?Chapter 5 Shopping: A Rough Guide to GenderChapter 6 Putting on a Posh VoiceChapter 7 Conclusion: Taking it all For GrantedBibliography
£14.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Consuming Life
Book SynopsisWith the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople.Trade Review"[An] engaged and important antidote to the platitudes of the times ... encourages the very human virtues [Bauman seeks] to recover from a world otherwise only concerned with the easy, the simple and the fast."Times Higher Education "A masterful account and critique of consumerism and the social consequences of its ubiquity ... another worthy contribution to the urgent task of social critique amid unprecedented and unfettered consumerism."Sociology "A timely intervention in helping sociologists think about what the sociology of consumption has achieved."Sociological Review "Consuming Life provides a fiery, stimulating and sharp diagnosis, with much to tell us about where and who we are in a market-led society."Commentary"Bauman's message calls for awakening from the slumber we are in."Essays in PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroductionOr, the most closely guarded secret of the society of consumers 1 1 Consumerism versus Consumption 25 2 Society of Consumers 52 3 Consumerist Culture 82 4 Collateral Casualties of Consumerism 117 Notes 151 Index 158
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