Buying Power A History of Consumer Activism in America

Name: Buying Power A History of Consumer Activism in America
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ISBN: 9780226298672

ISBN-10: 0226298671

ISBN-13: 9780226298672

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lawrence B. Glickman

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A definitive history of consumer activism,Buying Powertraces 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 wordboycotteven 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…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.91" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English