Social opulence and private restraint : the consumer in British socialist thought since 1800 / Noel Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Noel W., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--Great Britain.

Socialism.

Socialism--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of the place of the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins to the modern Left, illustrating the multifaceted ideological challenge presented by the accommodation of the consumer within socialist political economy.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Social Opulence and Private Restraint: The Consumer in British Socialist Thought Since 1800""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1: On the Cusp of Abundance""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE POSSIBILITIES AND PERILS OF ABUNDANCE""; ""NATURAL AND UNNATURAL WANTS: THE SOCIAL AND MATERIAL HAZARDS OF CONSUMPTION""; ""THE ETHICS OF BUYING AND SELLING""; ""CONSUMING IN THE NEW MORAL WORLD""; ""PRIVATE RESTRAINT AND SOCIAL OPULENCE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""2: Socialist Political Economy and the Growth of Mass Consumption, 1880-1914""; ""INTRODUCTION""

""IMPOVERISHED DESIRES""""NEITHER BY BREAD ALONE NOR WITHOUT IT""; ""THE EDUCATION AND EVOLUTION OF DESIRE""; ""SOCIAL CONSUMPTION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""3: 'Punished by the Attainment of their Desires': Social Democratic Conceptions of Consumption and the Consumer in Inter-war Britain""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE RATIONAL CONSUMER""; ""SOVEREIGNTY AND CHOICE, FREEDOM AND LICENSE""; ""THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONSUMPTION: SOCIAL, MORAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL""; ""CONSUMERS AND PRODUCERS: THEIR RELATIONSHIP UNDER SOCIALISM""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""4: Conceptualizing the Consumer in an Age of Affluence""

""INTRODUCTION""""THE RATIONAL, SOCIAL AND THE MORAL CONSUMER""; ""CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY, FREEDOM AND THE EXTENSION OF CHOICE""; ""PRIVATE CONSUMPTION AND SOCIAL EXPENDITURE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""5: Social Democracy and the Apotheosis of the Consumer""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CONSUMPTION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY""; ""POST-FORDIST SOCIALISM AND THE CONSUMER""; ""THE USER AS CONSUMER: PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY AND THE MARKETIZATION OF PUBLIC PROVISION""; ""THE CONSUMER AND NEW LABOUR""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""6: Gathering the Fragments: Critiquing the New Consumerism""; ""INTRODUCTION""

""IDENTITY CREATION, LIBERTY AND RATIONALITY""""THE HYPERTROPHY OF THE INDIVIDUAL, THE DECENTRING OF WORK AND THE ATTENUATION OF THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL""; ""COMMODIFYING PUBLIC PROVISION""; ""CONSUMPTION AND HUMAN HAPPINESS""; ""ECOSOCIALISM""; ""RESTRAINT AND SIMPLICITY""; ""SOCIAL AND ETHICAL CONSUMPTION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""7: Retrospect and Prospect""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-177849-4

0-19-101684-5

OCLC:

914255619