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Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America
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Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Lawrence B. Glickman


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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.

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  • Title Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America
  • Author Lawrence B. Glickman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 424
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London
  • Date 2009-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226298658 / 0226298655
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.48 x 1.15 in (22.81 x 16.46 x 2.92 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History, Consumers - United States - Political
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008050249
  • Dewey Decimal Code 381.320

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Citations

  • Choice, 05/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/18/2009, Page 16

About the author

Lawrence B. Glickman is professor of history at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society.

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