Gary Cro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Cro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Cro |
| SIGNATURE | CRO G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Playing with History: American Identities and Children's Consumer Culture
American children have long learned their history and social values through consumer culture as much as through the classroom. Toys, dolls, amusement parks, and even leisure-reading books have passed on hegemonic ideas about race and gender as well as value-laden historical narratives, while also reflecting the prevailing culture and fostering consumerist values. Through a brief account of the origins of American toy industry and four case studie…
Technology and American Society: A History
Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations, authors Gary Cross and Rick Szostak analyze the cause-and-effect relationship of technological change and its role in the constant drive for improvement an…
Nostalgic collections
Nostalgia has been transformed by the consumer market. With the emergence of ephemeral novelty goods – popular music, TV serials, kitsch, automobiles, and especially playthings – nostalgia has become less about identification with past communities, ideologies, or regimes than associated with fast-changing consumer goods, especially those encountered in childhood and youth. Reappropriating those goods later in life in nostalgic collecting has beco…
Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
1. The Carrot and the Candy Bar 2. Containing Civilization, Preserving the Ephemeral, Going Tubular 3. The Cigarette Story 4. Superfoods and the Engineered Origins of the Modern Sweet Tooth 5. Portable Packets of Sound: The Birth of the Phonograph and Record 6. Packaging Sight: Projections, Snapshots, and Motion Pictures 7. Packaging Fantasy: The Amusement Park as Mechanized Circus, Electric Theater, and Commercialized Spectacle 8. Pleasure on Sp…
Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960. Nicholas Sammond
A Right to Be Lazy: Busyness in Retrospective
Gary Cross A Right to Be Lazy? Busyness in Retrospective I RECALL AN OLD MAN SELLING PAUL LAFARGUE’S RIGHT TO BE LAZY ON a busy street in the Latin Quarter in the 1980s. At the time Iwas writing my first book on the history o f work time and leisure and felt by seeing this strange and grumpy man so energetically promoting the nearly forgotten work o f Marx’s son-in-law somehow vindicated in my efforts. Paul Lafargue’s pamphlet (1989 [1883]) makes…
Valves of Desire: A Historian's Perspective on Parents, Children, and Marketing
This historical analysis on marketing to children argues that the communications linkage between advertiser and child is more problematic than contemporary research models suggest. Cultural reactions to modern market society have led to constructions of childhood innocence that have both restricted and expanded consumption. Over the last century, this ambiguous response has produced repeated efforts to regulate advertising and has led to adult sp…
Toys and Time: Playthings and Parents' Attitudes toward Change in Early 20th-Century America
Toys, as conveyers of meaning between parents and their children, reveal interesting changes in adult attitudes toward seasonal celebrations, rites of passage, and feelings about the past and future. From about 1900, changes in the economic roles of children and parental emotional responses to the young made toys especially important repositories of temporal meanings. While American manufacturers accommodated parents with toys that met their ambi…
Labour in Settler-State Democracies: Comparative Perspectives on Australia and the US, 1860-1920
Australian and American labour historians have long struggled with how distinct patterns of nation building have affected their respective labour movements. While they have often compared their national development with European forbearers, this practice all too often privileges European theoretical models and historical experience. Thus the debate is frequently reduced to how close New World societies fit Marxist definitions of class
Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British Economic History. François Crouzet , Martin Thom
Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture
The Rise of the Paris Red Belt. Tyler Stovall
Living for the Weekend: The Shorter Hours Movement in International Perspective
A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940
Worktime and Industrialization: An International History
Worktime and Industrialization: An International History
The Political Economy of Unemployment: Some Historical Approaches
Research Article| May 01 1989 The Political Economy of Unemployment: Some Historical Approaches Gary Cross Gary Cross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (44): 190–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-44-190 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gary Cross; The Political Economy of Unemployment: Some Historical Approaches. R…
The Family Economy and the Market: Wages and Residence of Pennsylvania Women in the 1890s
Based on a 1894 government survey of 2,925 Pennsylvanian working women, this article analyzes the differences between daughters who remained at home and thus contributed to their family wage economy and those who boarded away. Choice of board location is explained in terms of wages, hours, location, and national origin. Data on boarding costs and wages are used to make inferences about the patterns of bargaining between parents and daughters with…
Immigrant Workers in Industrial France: The Making of a New Laboring Class
JHL HIS is a book about the origins of a new social class in industrial societies-the noncitizen alien laborer.Largely because of its contemporaneity, it is a new topic in historical research.The immigrant worker appeared often with industrialization in the nine teenth century not only in the United States but also Britain, Germany and France.Yet the characteristics of the contemporary noncitizen work force emerge only in the twentieth century.It…
The Family Economy and the Market: Wages and Residence of Pennsylvania Women in the 1890s
Based on a 1894 government survey of 2,925 Pennsylvanian working women, this article analyzes the differences between daughters who remained at home and thus contributed to their family wage economy and those who boarded away. Choice of board location is explained in terms of wages, hours, location, and national origin. Data on boarding costs and wages are used to make inferences about the patterns of bargaining between parents and daughters with…
Nostalgic collections
Nostalgia has been transformed by the consumer market. With the emergence of ephemeral novelty goods – popular music, TV serials, kitsch, automobiles, and especially playthings – nostalgia has become less about identification with past communities, ideologies, or regimes than associated with fast-changing consumer goods, especially those encountered in childhood and youth. Reappropriating those goods later in life in nostalgic collecting has beco…
Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
1. The Carrot and the Candy Bar 2. Containing Civilization, Preserving the Ephemeral, Going Tubular 3. The Cigarette Story 4. Superfoods and the Engineered Origins of the Modern Sweet Tooth 5. Portable Packets of Sound: The Birth of the Phonograph and Record 6. Packaging Sight: Projections, Snapshots, and Motion Pictures 7. Packaging Fantasy: The Amusement Park as Mechanized Circus, Electric Theater, and Commercialized Spectacle 8. Pleasure on Sp…
Toys and Time: Playthings and Parents' Attitudes toward Change in Early 20th-Century America
Toys, as conveyers of meaning between parents and their children, reveal interesting changes in adult attitudes toward seasonal celebrations, rites of passage, and feelings about the past and future. From about 1900, changes in the economic roles of children and parental emotional responses to the young made toys especially important repositories of temporal meanings. While American manufacturers accommodated parents with toys that met their ambi…
A Right to Be Lazy: Busyness in Retrospective
Gary Cross A Right to Be Lazy? Busyness in Retrospective I RECALL AN OLD MAN SELLING PAUL LAFARGUE’S RIGHT TO BE LAZY ON a busy street in the Latin Quarter in the 1980s. At the time Iwas writing my first book on the history o f work time and leisure and felt by seeing this strange and grumpy man so energetically promoting the nearly forgotten work o f Marx’s son-in-law somehow vindicated in my efforts. Paul Lafargue’s pamphlet (1989 [1883]) makes…
Valves of Desire: A Historian's Perspective on Parents, Children, and Marketing
This historical analysis on marketing to children argues that the communications linkage between advertiser and child is more problematic than contemporary research models suggest. Cultural reactions to modern market society have led to constructions of childhood innocence that have both restricted and expanded consumption. Over the last century, this ambiguous response has produced repeated efforts to regulate advertising and has led to adult sp…
Labour in Settler-State Democracies: Comparative Perspectives on Australia and the US, 1860-1920
Australian and American labour historians have long struggled with how distinct patterns of nation building have affected their respective labour movements. While they have often compared their national development with European forbearers, this practice all too often privileges European theoretical models and historical experience. Thus the debate is frequently reduced to how close New World societies fit Marxist definitions of class
Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture
The Family Economy and the Market: Wages and Residence of Pennsylvania Women in the 1890s
Based on a 1894 government survey of 2,925 Pennsylvanian working women, this article analyzes the differences between daughters who remained at home and thus contributed to their family wage economy and those who boarded away. Choice of board location is explained in terms of wages, hours, location, and national origin. Data on boarding costs and wages are used to make inferences about the patterns of bargaining between parents and daughters with…
Immigrant Workers in Industrial France: The Making of a New Laboring Class
JHL HIS is a book about the origins of a new social class in industrial societies-the noncitizen alien laborer.Largely because of its contemporaneity, it is a new topic in historical research.The immigrant worker appeared often with industrialization in the nine teenth century not only in the United States but also Britain, Germany and France.Yet the characteristics of the contemporary noncitizen work force emerge only in the twentieth century.It…
The Political Economy of Unemployment: Some Historical Approaches
Research Article| May 01 1989 The Political Economy of Unemployment: Some Historical Approaches Gary Cross Gary Cross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (44): 190–202. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-44-190 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gary Cross; The Political Economy of Unemployment: Some Historical Approaches. R…
Worktime and Industrialization: An International History
Worktime and Industrialization: An International History
Living for the Weekend: The Shorter Hours Movement in International Perspective
A Quest for Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France, 1840-1940
The Rise of the Paris Red Belt. Tyler Stovall
Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British Economic History. François Crouzet , Martin Thom
Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture
Labour in Settler-State Democracies: Comparative Perspectives on Australia and the US, 1860-1920
Australian and American labour historians have long struggled with how distinct patterns of nation building have affected their respective labour movements. While they have often compared their national development with European forbearers, this practice all too often privileges European theoretical models and historical experience. Thus the debate is frequently reduced to how close New World societies fit Marxist definitions of class
Toys and Time: Playthings and Parents' Attitudes toward Change in Early 20th-Century America
Toys, as conveyers of meaning between parents and their children, reveal interesting changes in adult attitudes toward seasonal celebrations, rites of passage, and feelings about the past and future. From about 1900, changes in the economic roles of children and parental emotional responses to the young made toys especially important repositories of temporal meanings. While American manufacturers accommodated parents with toys that met their ambi…
Valves of Desire: A Historian's Perspective on Parents, Children, and Marketing
This historical analysis on marketing to children argues that the communications linkage between advertiser and child is more problematic than contemporary research models suggest. Cultural reactions to modern market society have led to constructions of childhood innocence that have both restricted and expanded consumption. Over the last century, this ambiguous response has produced repeated efforts to regulate advertising and has led to adult sp…
A Right to Be Lazy: Busyness in Retrospective
Gary Cross A Right to Be Lazy? Busyness in Retrospective I RECALL AN OLD MAN SELLING PAUL LAFARGUE’S RIGHT TO BE LAZY ON a busy street in the Latin Quarter in the 1980s. At the time Iwas writing my first book on the history o f work time and leisure and felt by seeing this strange and grumpy man so energetically promoting the nearly forgotten work o f Marx’s son-in-law somehow vindicated in my efforts. Paul Lafargue’s pamphlet (1989 [1883]) makes…
Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960. Nicholas Sammond
Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
1. The Carrot and the Candy Bar 2. Containing Civilization, Preserving the Ephemeral, Going Tubular 3. The Cigarette Story 4. Superfoods and the Engineered Origins of the Modern Sweet Tooth 5. Portable Packets of Sound: The Birth of the Phonograph and Record 6. Packaging Sight: Projections, Snapshots, and Motion Pictures 7. Packaging Fantasy: The Amusement Park as Mechanized Circus, Electric Theater, and Commercialized Spectacle 8. Pleasure on Sp…
Nostalgic collections
Nostalgia has been transformed by the consumer market. With the emergence of ephemeral novelty goods – popular music, TV serials, kitsch, automobiles, and especially playthings – nostalgia has become less about identification with past communities, ideologies, or regimes than associated with fast-changing consumer goods, especially those encountered in childhood and youth. Reappropriating those goods later in life in nostalgic collecting has beco…
Technology and American Society: A History
Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations, authors Gary Cross and Rick Szostak analyze the cause-and-effect relationship of technological change and its role in the constant drive for improvement an…
Playing with History: American Identities and Children's Consumer Culture
American children have long learned their history and social values through consumer culture as much as through the classroom. Toys, dolls, amusement parks, and even leisure-reading books have passed on hegemonic ideas about race and gender as well as value-laden historical narratives, while also reflecting the prevailing culture and fostering consumerist values. Through a brief account of the origins of American toy industry and four case studie…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Business (4 works)