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Book Synopsis A Consumers' Republic by : Lizabeth Cohen
Download or read book A Consumers' Republic written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our “Consumers’ Republic” Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :254 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Consumer Information Responsibilities of the Federal Government by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Download or read book Consumer Information Responsibilities of the Federal Government written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Executive and Legislative Reorganization Subcommittee Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :498 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis Organizing Federal Consumer Activities by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Executive and Legislative Reorganization Subcommittee
Download or read book Organizing Federal Consumer Activities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Executive and Legislative Reorganization Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :148 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Establish a Department of Consumers by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations
Download or read book Establish a Department of Consumers written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (86) S. 1571.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and Military Operations Subcommittee Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :652 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Consumer Protection Legislation by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and Military Operations Subcommittee
Download or read book Consumer Protection Legislation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and Military Operations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introducing a Department for Consumers in Our Federal Government by : Canada. Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs
Download or read book Introducing a Department for Consumers in Our Federal Government written by Canada. Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Studies Subcommittee Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :252 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Consumer Information Responsibilities of the Federal Government by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Studies Subcommittee
Download or read book Consumer Information Responsibilities of the Federal Government written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Studies Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines extent to which Federal agencies carry out their responsibilities to protect the American consumer.
Download or read book The Consumer Action Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Executive and Legislative Reorganization Subcommittee Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :316 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Creating a Department of Consumers by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Executive and Legislative Reorganization Subcommittee
Download or read book Creating a Department of Consumers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Executive and Legislative Reorganization Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers H.R. 7179, to establish a Department of Consumers in the executive branch of the Government.
Book Synopsis Democracy Declined by : Mallory E. SoRelle
Download or read book Democracy Declined written by Mallory E. SoRelle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, “It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five chance of putting the family out on the street.” More than a century after the government embraced credit to fuel the American economy, consumer financial protections in the increasingly complex financial system still place the onus on individuals to sift through fine print for assurance that they are not vulnerable to predatory lending and other pitfalls of consumer financing and growing debt. In Democracy Declined, Mallory E. SoRelle argues that the failure of federal policy makers to curb risky practices can be explained by the evolution of consumer finance policies aimed at encouraging easy credit in part by foregoing more stringent regulation. Furthermore, SoRelle explains how angry borrowers’ experiences with these policies teach them to focus their attention primarily on banks and lenders instead of demanding that lawmakers address predatory behavior. As a result, advocacy groups have been mostly unsuccessful in mobilizing borrowers in support of stronger consumer financial protections. The absence of safeguards on consumer financing is particularly dangerous because the consequences extend well beyond harm to individuals—they threaten the stability of entire economies. SoRelle identifies pathways to mitigate these potentially disastrous consequences through greater public participation.
Book Synopsis Creating Consumers by : Carolyn M. Goldstein
Download or read book Creating Consumers written by Carolyn M. Goldstein and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in this transition, professional home economists had two major goals: to teach women to assume their new roles as modern consumers and to communicate homemakers' needs to manufacturers and political leaders. Carolyn M. Goldstein charts the development of the profession from its origins as an educational movement to its identity as a source of consumer expertise in the interwar period to its virtual disappearance by the 1970s. Working for both business and government, home economists walked a fine line between educating and representing consumers while they shaped cultural expectations about consumer goods as well as the goods themselves. Goldstein looks beyond 1970s feminist scholarship that dismissed home economics for its emphasis on domesticity to reveal the movement's complexities, including the extent of its public impact and debates about home economists' relationship to the commercial marketplace.
Book Synopsis Government Services for Consumers by : Francis A. Corr
Download or read book Government Services for Consumers written by Francis A. Corr and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buying Power by : Lawrence B. Glickman
Download or read book Buying Power written by Lawrence B. Glickman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of consumer activism, Buying Power traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation’s founding, revealing that Americans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott even entered our lexicon. Taking the Boston Tea Party as his starting point, Lawrence Glickman argues that the rejection of British imports by revolutionary patriots inaugurated a continuous series of consumer boycotts, campaigns for safe and ethical consumption, and efforts to make goods more broadly accessible. He 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. Uncovering previously unknown episodes and analyzing famous events from a fresh perspective, Glickman illuminates moments when consumer activism intersected with political and civil rights movements. He also sheds new light on activists’ relationship with the consumer movement, which gave rise to lobbies like the National Consumers League and Consumers Union as well as ill-fated legislation to create a federal Consumer Protection Agency.
Book Synopsis The Role of Government in Protecting Consumers by : Marion Courtney Taylor
Download or read book The Role of Government in Protecting Consumers written by Marion Courtney Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Consumerism; Viewpoints from Business, Government, and the Public Interest by : Ralph M. Gaedeke (comp.)
Download or read book Consumerism; Viewpoints from Business, Government, and the Public Interest written by Ralph M. Gaedeke (comp.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Consumer Citizen by : Ethan Porter
Download or read book The Consumer Citizen written by Ethan Porter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans spend far more time thinking about what to buy, and what not to buy, than they do about politics. Political leaders often make political claims while using consumer terminology. And political decisions resemble consumer decisions in surprising ways. Together, these forces help give rise to the consumer-citizen: A person who depends on tools and techniques familiar from consumer life to make sense of politics. Understanding citizens as consumer-citizens has implications for a broad array of topics related to public opinion and political behaviour. More than a dozen new experiments make clear that appealing to the consumer-citizen as consumer-citizen can increase trust in government, improve attitudes toward taxes, and enhance political knowledge. Indeed, such appeals can even cause people to sign up for government-sponsored health insurance. However, the consumer-citizen may also prefer candidates whose policies would explicitly undercut their own self-interest. Two concepts from consumer psychology, consumer fairness and operational transparency, are especially useful for understanding the consumer citizen. Although the rise of the consumer-citizen may trouble democratic theorists, the lessons of the consumer-citizen can be applied to a new approach to civic education, with the aim of enriching democracy and public life"--
Book Synopsis Creating Citizen-Consumers by : John Clarke
Download or read book Creating Citizen-Consumers written by John Clarke and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This is an illuminating and topical study, which skilfully blends together theoretical and empirical analysis in search of the "citizen-consumer". It should become a key text for all with an interest in public service reform and the "choice" agenda, as well as consumerism and citizenship′ - Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, University of Loughborough Political, popular and academic debates have swirled around the notion of the citizen as a consumer of public services, with public service reform increasingly geared towards a consumer society. This innovative book draws on original research with those people in the front-line of the reforms - staff, managers and users of public services - to explore their responses to this turn to consumerism. Creating Citizen-Consumers explores a range of theoretical, political, policy and practice issues that arise in the shift towards consumerism. It draws on recent controversies about choice to examine the tensions of modernising public services to meet the demands of a consumer society. The book offers a fresh and challenging understanding of the relationships between people and services, and argues for a model based on interdependence, respect and partnership rather than choice. This original book makes a distinctive contribution to debates about the future of public services. It will be of interest to those studying social policy, cultural studies, public administration and management across the social sciences, as well as for those working in public services. John Clarke is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University. Janet Newman is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University. Nick Smith is a Research Officer in the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. Elizabeth Vidler is a Project Officer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. Louise Westmarland is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University.
