Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain
The Search for a Historical Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20512487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Hilton (0000-0002-6792-2208) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 396 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511610097 |
| ISBN | 9780511610097 |
| Open Library | OL7765583M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 110 |
| References cited | 130 |
This book is the first comprehensive history of consumerism as an organised social and political movement. Matthew Hilton offers a groundbreaking account of consumer movements, ideologies and organisations in twentieth-century Britain. He argues that in organisations such as the Co-operative movement and the Consumers' Association individual concern with what and how we spend our wages led to forms of political engagement too often overlooked in existing accounts of twentieth-century history. He explores how the consumer and consumerism came to be regarded by many as a third force in society with the potential to free politics from the perceived stranglehold of the self-interested actions of employers and trade unions. Finally he recovers the visions of countless consumer activists who saw in consumption a genuine force for liberation for women, the working class and new social movements as well as a set of ideas often deliberately excluded from more established political organisations.
20th century · British & Irish history: from c 1900 · British Isles · Business & Economics · Consumer issues · Consumer protection · Consumers · Consumption (Economics) · Economic conditions · Economic history · Economics - Macroeconomics · Europe - Great Britain - General · Great britain · History · History - General History · Political aspects · Social aspects · Social history
Francis Bacon and Fetishism
A Big Responsibility! The Moralization of Markets and Rise of Supermarket Patriotism
The Sublime of the Bazaar
Campaigning culinary documentaries and the responsibilization of food crises
Repositioning the Patient
The Anti-Chain Store Movement and the Politics of Consumption
At the Edge of the Storm
The Study of Borderlands Consumption
El Dompe , Los Yonkes , and Las Segundas
Confined to the Margins
Drawing Boundaries between Markets, Nations, and Peoples, 1650-1940
Using and Sharing
Disrupting Boundaries
Finding Mexico’s Great Show Window
Cinema on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Selling the Border
Domesticating the Border
On La Frontera and Cultures of Consumption
Promoting the Pacific Borderlands
A Woman's Right to Know
You Could Not Get Any Person to be Trusted Except the State
A Fascinating Show for John Citizen and his Wife”
An Efficient Pursuit? Independent Shopkeeping in 1930s Britain
Pianos for the People
Consumption in lieu of Membership
Consumerism
Beyond 1973
Moral Economy
Thatcherism and the origins of the 2007 crisis
Marketing morals, moralizing markets
Feeling at Home
The Shaping of British Consumer Co-Operation
The age of affluence revisited
Fields of Obligation
Conceptual Con/fusion in Democratic Societies
Consumption, Pleasure and Politics
Citizenship and consumption
The Legacy of Luxury
Food hygiene, public health education and citizenship in Britain, 1948–1967
Spare Rib , Second-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Consumption
From Cookery in Colour to The Great British Bake Off
Consumers to Combatants? British Uniforms and Identities, 1914–18
British Manual Workers
Thatcher’s troops? Neighbourhood Watch schemes and the search for ‘ordinary’ Thatcherism in 1980s Britain
Affluence and Social Change in the Making of Technocratic Middle-Class Identities
It's the Economy, Stupid! Labour and the Economy, circa 1964
Salesmen of the Will to Want’
Conceptualising the Consumer
Financial Consumerism’
Creating the Exemplary Citizen
Voice of Civilisation
Towards a social history of European integration
Speculations on working class debt
Consuming communities
Entertaining the community
Green Citizenship at the Recycling Junction
Problems with the defetishization thesis
Socialist Communication Strategies and the Spring of 1917
Emerging preoccupations, developing lexicon
Arbitrating risk through moral values
Contesting Affluence
Building the Welfare State
Cool Capitalism in the Brewhouse
Working-Class Household Consumption Smoothing in Interwar Britain
Mass-Observation, Market Research, and the Birth of the Focus Group, 1937–1997
The Penguins Are Coming”
Participatory Democracy and the British Utopian Tradition
Reproducing or Contesting the Global? Belgian Organized Consumerism and its International Entanglements (1957–1995)
Too Much of a Good Thing? Consumption, Consumerism, and Consumer Cooperation in Modern History
A Consumers’ International? The International Cooperative Alliance and Cooperative Internationalism, 1918–1939
Is there anything real about real wages? A history of the official B ritish cost of living index, 1914–62
The consumption of radio broadcast technologies in Hong Kong, c.1930–1960 1
Europe’s mediation junction
The Politics of Food and Women's Neighborhood Activism in First World War Britain
The Death of a Consumer Society
Consumers and the State since the Second World War
The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics
The Control of Outdoor Advertising, Amenity, and Urban Governance in Britain, 1893–1962
Meat and Economic Expertise in the British Imperial State During the First World War
Labour Women MPs and Housewifery in the House of Commons, 1945–1951
Quality control
Collective strength and mutual aid
Fair play for the small man’
Vogue in Britain
Confronting three revolutions
Buy British’
Co-operation and the ‘new consumerism’ in interwar England
Slave Cocoa and Red Rubber
The citizen-consumer hybrid
Making Political Consumers
Ethical Consumerism in Global Perspective
Patient Groups and the Construction of the Patient-Consumer in Britain
Knowledge for Sale
Storm in a teacup
Le genre de la consommation en 1900. Autour de la Ligue sociale d'acheteurs
From Ethical Consumerism to Political Consumption
In the Family Way
Constructing Responsibilities for Risk
Retail Innovation and Shopping Practices
Regards sur la consommation de masse
Constructing a Competitive Order
Consumption
The Long Revolution
Dream Worlds
The Idea of Luxury
Visions of the People
Masculinity and the British Organization Man since 1945
Austerity in Britain
Advertising the American Dream
Classes and Cultures
The Body in Consumer Culture
Quangos in Britain
The Politics of Consumption
Order and Disorder in Early Modern England
Wealth and Virtue
One Market Under God
A consumer’s guide to local government
Getting and Spending
Sex of Things
Essays in Labour History, 1886-1923
Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain
Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties
The Age of the Dream Palace
Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America
The Coming of the Mass Market, 1850–1914
Consuming Anxieties
Shopping for Pleasure
The Question of Agency
The Cost of Living and Real Wages in Eighteenth Century England
The Logic of Practice
Flattering Consumption
The Limits of Tawney's Ethical Socialism
The Pure Beer Campaign and Arsenic Poisoning, 1896–1903
Treasury Control and the Empire Marketing Board
Evan Durbin
Adulteration and Food Law, 1899-1939
Mrs Maggs and Betty
Voluntarism and the Welfare/Warfare State. Women's Voluntary Services in the 1940s
Bread Rationing in Britain, July 1946–July 1948
White Poison? The Social Consequences of Milk Consumption, 1850–1930
From the moral economy of Devon to the political economy of Manchester, 1790–1812 1
Redefining Consumer Culture
Working-Class Consumer Power
Workers of the World, Consume
Captains of Consciousness
The Appropriate Types of Authority
Activists against “Affluence”
The Strike in the Temple of Consumption
How About Some Meat
Walter Citrine and the British Labour Movement, 1925–1935
Middle Opinion in the Thirties
The Assize of Bread
The Moral Economy and the Discipline of Historical Context
Disciplining Consumption
The Female Consumer and the Politics of Consumption in Twentieth-Century Britain
Women, consumption and coverture in England, c . 1760–1860
Rationing, austerity and the Conservative party recovery after 1945
Retailing History as Economic and Cultural History
I Had seen a Lot of Englands
Inventing our Selves
Empire
Shaftesbury and the culture of politeness
An Empire of Goods
The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution
The Consumer Society
No Place of Grace
The Fable of the Sheep, or, Private Virtues, Public Vices
The Independent Labour Party in the Nineteen-Twenties
Wealth Versus Welfare
Militant Housewives
Housewives, Socialists, and the Politics of Food
Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792
Deft fingers' and 'persuasive eloquence
Negotiating the boundaries of the domestic
Hobson and the Fabians
The State and the Market in 1800
Comment Morals, Markets and the English Crowd in 1766
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism
Morals, Markets and the English Crowd in 1766
Working-Class Women and the Contest for Consumer Control in Victorian County Courts
Gender, Household and Community Politics
Payment and Participation
Institutional Re(turns) and the Strategic - Relational Approach
The General Election
Sidney Webb
Baubles of Britain
Female Consciousness and Collective Action
Feminists, Food and the Fair Price
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
Mobilizing the Consumer
Learning to Consume
Engaging with Promotional Culture
The Construction of Rational Consumption in Which? Magazine
| Citations per year | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Highly cited | Yes |