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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.

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/05/2012
      ISBN13: 9780226298672, 978-0226298672
      ISBN10: 0226298671
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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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