Voice of Civilisation
Advertising and its critics in austerity Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12585271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Gurney (0000-0003-3938-8092, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-208 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary British History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1361-9462 • E-ISSN: 1743-7997 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13619462.2017.1410436 |
| OpenAlex | W2770375012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
The advertising industry was on the defensive during World War Two, with advertising regarded by many British people as deeply unpatriotic, potentially undermining the national interest and the fight against fascism. This article analyses the debate on the role of advertising in Britain in the immediate aftermath of war, when the advertising industry regrouped to meet the challenge of working within an economic environment shaped by the imperatives of a Labour government committed to wide scale state intervention. Critics of advertising within the labour movement were emboldened by this context, and the industry was threatened with punitive taxation in 1947. Focusing particularly on this flashpoint and its aftermath, the article sheds new light on the increasingly open struggle between private enterprise and state planning during this volatile period
Advertising · Austerity · Business · Context (archaeology · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Punitive damages · Sociology · State (computer science · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
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Austerity in Britain
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Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain
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The Eclipse of ‘Elegant Economy’
They do it with Mirrors
Hard Sell
The Gentleman in Whitehall’ Reconsidered
Arguing Affluence
Socialist Political Economy in an Age of Affluence
Justifying British Advertising in War and Austerity, 1939–51
Consuming Behaviours
Coercion or persuasion? Propaganda in Britain after 1945
The Cripps Version
Irresistible Empire
The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64
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Advertising expenditure in 1950s Britain
Selling Self-Service and the Supermarket
Techniques of Pressure-Anti-Nationalization Propaganda in Britain
The Making of a Sugar Giant
Austerity in britain
Hobson and the Fabians
Labour Governments and Private Industry
The Battle of the Consumer in Postwar Britain
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |