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Combining social history with interdisciplinary approaches to the study of consumption and symbolic space, Middle Class Union illustrates how acts of consumption, representations of the middle class in literary and artistic discourses, and ground-level organising combined to enable white-collar activists to establish themselves as both the middle class and the backbone of America.

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An important intervention into a historiography that has all too often limited its consideration of consumption to the realm of culture. Robbins reminds us that not only is consumption a political act, but it is an act that can encourage consumers to think of themselves as political actors."" - Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 5/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472130337, 978-0472130337
      ISBN10: 0472130331
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      Book Synopsis
      Combining social history with interdisciplinary approaches to the study of consumption and symbolic space, Middle Class Union illustrates how acts of consumption, representations of the middle class in literary and artistic discourses, and ground-level organising combined to enable white-collar activists to establish themselves as both the middle class and the backbone of America.

      Trade Review
      An important intervention into a historiography that has all too often limited its consideration of consumption to the realm of culture. Robbins reminds us that not only is consumption a political act, but it is an act that can encourage consumers to think of themselves as political actors."" - Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow

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