{"product_id":"selling-out-or-buying-in-9781487521868","title":"Selling Out or Buying In","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today’s consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sundays. Since that decade, however, British Columbians, and Canadians generally, have made significant strides in gaining greater and easier access to consumer goods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelling Out or Buying In?\u003c\/i\u003e is the first work to illuminate the process by which consumers’ access to goods and services was liberalized and deregulated in Canada in the second half of the twentieth century. Michael Dawson’s engagingly written and detailed exploration of the debates amongst everyday citizens and politicians regarding the pros and cons of expanding shopping opportunities, challenges the assumption of inevitability surrounding Canada’s emergence as a consumer society. The expansion of s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dawson is optimistic about our own agency to break out of the prison house of consumerism...\" -- Dr. Matthew J. Bellamy * BC Studies, online *\u003cbr\u003e\"This well-researched engaging monograph uncovers the complex debates over store-hour restrictions that shaped the retail landscape of Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, in the post-Second World War period.\" -- Vicki Howard, University of Essex * Histoire Sociale\/Social History, vol 52 no 105, May '19 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Thick descriptions of the kind presented by Dawson are valuable, and, when written engagingly, as this study is, they make for a pleasant read.\" -- David Monod, Wilfrid Laurier University * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Santa's Lament    Chapter 1 Conflict: Restricting \u0026amp; Liberalizing Store Hours    Chapter 2 Community: Tourism, Leisure, and the Quest for Civic Prosperity    Chapter 3 Leverage: The Rhetoric and Reality of Chain Store Dominance    Chapter 4 Morality: Women, Families \u0026amp; Consumer Convenience    Chapter 5 Regulation: Evasion and Enforcement    Chapter 6 Ideology: The Cold War and the Public Sphere    Chapter 7 Religion: Sunday Shopping's Multiple Battlegrounds    Conclusion Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739690152279,"sku":"9781487521868","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487521868.jpg?v=1720052910","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/selling-out-or-buying-in-9781487521868","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}