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Retail and Community : Business, Charity and the End of Empire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Awal, Nadia.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local and the global, between the late-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Retail and Community: English Experiences and International Encounters in the Long 20th Century
- The Commodification of Japanese Culture in Transcultural Charity Bazaars: The Mikado Festival and Feast of Lanterns in Darlington, 1887
- Hall and Spindler, Bespoke Tailors and Outfitters of Leamington Spa, 1878-1895: A Study in Retail Credit, Trust and Loyalty
- Shopkeeper and Educator: Aspects of the Co-operative Movement in England, 1870-1914
- 'By the Army, for the Army': The Salvation Army's Early Retail Activities, Criticisms and Responses in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- A Labour of Love: The Role of Retail in Salvation Army Rescue Work for Women
- Much More than a Gossip Shop: Black Country Independent Womenswear Retail, Family and Community
- Charity, Community and Trade: The British Charity Shop, 1940s-1970s
- Empire of Charity: The British 'Helping Hand' in South African Charity Shops, 1971-1972
- Race, Retailing and the Windrush Generation: Principle and Practice in the John Lewis Partnership's Recruitment of Commonwealth Arrivals, 1950-1962
- Encounters at the Counter: Race, Class and Belonging in the British Asian Corner Shop
- 'The Grocer Carried Me for Three Months': Retail Support for Workers Involved in Extended Industrial Disputes
- Understanding the 'Gift' in the Post-Economic Downturn Charity Shop
- Reflections
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-3526-X
- OCLC:
- 1438771586
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