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Provides a definitive history of consumer activism. This title explores abolitionist-led efforts to eschew slave-made goods, African American consumer campaigns against Jim Crow, a 1930s refusal of silk from fascist Japan, and emerging contemporary movements like slow food.

Buying Power A History of Consumer Activism in

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 May 2012
      ISBN-13 9780226298672
      978-0226298672
      ISBN-10 0226298671
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      Social and cultural history Consumerism Political activism / Political engagement

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      Book Synopsis
      Provides a definitive history of consumer activism. This title explores abolitionist-led efforts to eschew slave-made goods, African American consumer campaigns against Jim Crow, a 1930s refusal of silk from fascist Japan, and emerging contemporary movements like slow food.

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