Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501709259 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Louis Hyman is an Associate Professor of History at the ILR School of Cornell University, the cofounder of Cornell's History of Capitalism Initiative, and the incoming director of ILR’s Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. He is the author of Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink and Borrow: The American Way of Debt.Joseph Tohill teaches twentieth-century American and Canadian h
Mayer, University of Utah; Michelle McDonald, Stockton University; Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy, John Carroll University; Mark W. Robbins, Del Mar College;Jessica Stewart, Cornell University;Joseph Tohill, York University and Ryerson University; Allison Ward, Queen's University and McMaster University; Philip Wight, Brandeis University. They boycott Taco Bell to support migrant workers or Burger King to save the rainforest.But can we overcome the limitations of consumer identity, the conservative pull of consumer choice, co-optation by corporate marketers, and other pitfalls of consumer activism in order to marshal the possibilities of consumer power? Can we, quite literally, shop for change? Shopping for Change brings together the historical and contemporary perspectives of academics and activists to show readers what has been possible for consumer activists in the past and what might be possible for today's consumer activists.ContributorsKyle Asquith, University of Windsor;
Consumer activismHow and why Timely, excellent read
Read this book and shop wisely, sometimes shop less, and, increasingly, shop together for your democratic voice."Ralph Nader. "Shopping for Change is replete with the documented beliefs that individual and collective political purchasing reduce and redirect the basic reservoir of giant corporate powerthe dollars we give them that they use against the people and the planet