Shopping for Change : Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power / Louis Hyman, Joseph Tohill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hyman, Louis, editor.

Tohill, Joseph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics).

Consumer behavior.

Consumer movements--United States--History.

Consumer movements.

Consumer movements--Canada--History.

Consumer movements--United States.

Consumer movements--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Consuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions matter. Political consumers "buy green" for the environment or they "buy pink" to combat breast cancer. They boycott Taco Bell to support migrant workers or Burger King to save the rainforest.But can we overcome the limitations of consumer identity, the conservative pull of consumer choice, co-optation by corporate marketers, and other pitfalls of consumer activism in order to marshal the possibilities of consumer power? Can we, quite literally, shop for change? Shopping for Change brings together the historical and contemporary perspectives of academics and activists to show readers what has been possible for consumer activists in the past and what might be possible for today's consumer activists.ContributorsKyle Asquith, University of Windsor; Dawson Barrett, Del Mar College; Lawrence Black, University of York; Madeline Brambilla, Northeastern University; Joshua Carreiro, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA; H. Louise Davis, Miami University; Jeffrey Demsky, San Bernardino Valley College; Tracey Deutsch, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Mara Einstein, Queens College, CUNY; Bart Elmore, University of Alabama; Sarah Elvins, University of Manitoba; Daniel Faber, Northeastern University; Julie Guard, University of Manitoba; Louis Hyman, ILR School, Cornell University; Meredith Katz, Virginia Commonwealth University; Randall Kaufman, Miami Dade College-Homestead Campus; Larry Kirsh, IMR Health Economics, Portland, OR; Katrina Lacher, University of Central Oklahoma; Bettina Liverant, University of Calgary; Amy Lubitow, Portland State University; Robert N. Mayer, University of Utah; Michelle McDonald, Stockton University; Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy, John Carroll University; Mark W. Robbins, Del Mar College;Jessica Stewart, Cornell University;Joseph Tohill, York University and Ryerson University; Allison Ward, Queen's University and McMaster University; Philip Wight, Brandeis University

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Hyman, Louis / Tohill, Joseph

1. Consuming with a Conscience / McDonald, Michelle Craig

2. Boycotts, Buycotts, and Legislation / Murphy, Wendy Wiedenhoft

3. Making a Market for Consumers / Liverant, Bettina

4. Making a Middle-Class "Public" / Robbins, Mark

5. You Are Purchasing Prosperity! / Ward, Allison

6. Making Money in Hard Times / Elvins, Sarah

7. Protecting the "Guinea Pig Children" / Asquith, Kyle

8. Our Economic Way Out / Carreiro, Joshua L.

9. Not Buying It / Demsky, Jeffrey Scott / Kaufman, Randall

10. Canada's Citizen Housewives / Guard, Julie

11. "The Consumer Goes to War" Consumer Politics in the United States and Canada during the Second World War / Tohill, Joseph

12. From the Great Society to Giant / Black, Lawrence

13. The Countercultural Roots of Green Consumerism / Wight, Philip A.

14. Purchasing Change / Davis, H. Louise

15. Buying a Better World / Einstein, Mara

16. What about the Cause? / Faber, Daniel / Lubitow, Amy / Brambilla, Madeline

17. The Making of a Coke CAN / Elmore, Bartow

18. Boot the Bell / Barrett, Dawson

19. Where's the Beef . . . From? / Lacher, Katrina

20. The Sweatshop Effect / Katz, Meredith

21. Hating Wal-Mart, Loving Target, and the Contradictions of Supply Chain Capitalism / Stewart, Jessica

22. Ports are the New Factories / Hyman, Louis

23. To Speak in One Voice / Mayer, Robert N. / Kirsch, Larry

24. On Demand

CONTRIBUTORS

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781501712630

1501712632

OCLC:

1080549342