The expert consumer : associations and professionals in consumer society /: associations and professionals in consumer society. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel, Matthew Hilton.
• Other Names: Chatriot, Alain; Chessel, Marie-Emmanuelle; Hilton, Matthew
• Contents: Introduction / Alain Chatriot, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel, and Matthew Hilton -- Early consumer activism -- Through the medium of their pockets : sabbatarianism, free produce, non-intercourse and the significance of early modern consumer activism / Lawrence B. Glickman -- The moral expertise of the British consumer, c. 1900 : a debate between the Christian Social Union and the Webbs / Julien Vincent -- Consumers leagues in France : a transatlantic perspective / Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel -- Consumer expertise in war and peace -- Educating consumers, representing consumers : reforming the marketplace through scientific expertise at the Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, 1923-1940 / Carolyn M. Goldstein -- The enemy within : food, nutrition experts and consumers in French-speaking Switzerland, 1900-1946 / Joëlle Droux -- Shopping for an "economic miracle" : gendered politics of consumer -- Citizenship in divided Germany / Katherine Pence -- Consumers in the society of consumption -- Consumers associations and the state : protection and defence of the consumer in France, 1950-2000 / Alain Chatriot -- Shopping for the people's home : consumer planning in Norway and Sweden after the Second World War / Iselin Theien -- The entrepreneurial ethic and the spirit of consumerism : finances and strategy in the US consumer movement / Robert N. Mayer -- Living in the city differently : the birth of new expertise in France in the 1960s and 1970s / Odile Join-Lambert and Yves Lochard -- The organised consumer movement since 1945 / Matthew Hilton.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (220 pages)
• Subjects: 339.4/7; Consumers -- Europe -- History; Consumers -- United States -- History; Consumer protection -- Europe -- History; Consumer protection -- United States -- History; Consumption (Economics) -- Europe -- History; Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History; Consumer protection; Consumers; Consumption (Economics); Consumentenbeweging; Consumentenorganisaties; Consumentenbescherming; Verbraucherverband; Verbraucherschutz; Verbraucherverhalten; Consumers -- History -- Congresses; Consumption (Economics) -- History -- Congresses; Europe; United States; Europa (geografie); Verenigde Staten; Europa; USA; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351889933; 1351889931
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.