The Consumer Society Reader
Juliet Schor
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Description for The Consumer Society Reader
Paperback. Editor(s): Schor, Juliet B.; Holt, Douglas B. Num Pages: 528 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: KJSM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 734.
A unique and definitive reader on our "national passion"—buying stuff—and its consequences for American society. We are citizens, owners and workers, believers and heathens, but today more than anything else we are consumers. How this came to be and its consequences for us all is the subject of this pioneering reader on the rise—and continued rise—of consumerism. The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. It includes classics such as the Frankfurt School writers Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse on the Culture Industry; Thorstein Veblen's oft-cited writings on "conspicuous consumption"; Betty ... Read more
A unique and definitive reader on our "national passion"—buying stuff—and its consequences for American society. We are citizens, owners and workers, believers and heathens, but today more than anything else we are consumers. How this came to be and its consequences for us all is the subject of this pioneering reader on the rise—and continued rise—of consumerism. The Consumer Society Reader features a range of key works on the nature and evolution of consumer society. It includes classics such as the Frankfurt School writers Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse on the Culture Industry; Thorstein Veblen's oft-cited writings on "conspicuous consumption"; Betty ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
733g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781565845985
SKU
V9781565845985
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Juliet Schor
Juliet B. Schor's research has focused on the economics of work, spending, environment, and the consumer culture. She is the author of Born to Buy, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American. Schor is senior lecturer on women's studies at Harvard University, as well as chair in the economics of leisure studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She ... Read more
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