Toward a Canadian Consumer History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3983451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donica Belisle (Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Pages | 181 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25149387 |
| OpenAlex | W1756288267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In 1992, CYNTHIA WRIGHT noted that [rjemarkably little Canadian work has been done, whether by labour, social, or feminist historians, to document and to theorize the impact of consumer culture.1 Over the past decade, many scholars have altered this situation, and recently several works addressing Canadian consumer history have appeared. Together this scholarship tells historians much about the rise and transformation of consumption in Canada. Perhaps most importantly, we now know that the late 19th century was a formative moment in Canadian consumer his tory. Some of Canada's inhabitants became interested in shopping for, purchasing, using, and enjoying commodities during this period. These interests in turn were re lated to state expansion, industrialization, urbanization, democratization, and im migration. By the 1920s, many workers and farmers joined the urban middle class
Canadian Identity and History · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |