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Author_Susan Benson
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class
class and consumption
class identity
classic women's history
clerks
consumer culture
consumer economy
consumerism
culture of consumption
department store
desire
employers
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family economy
female labor
feminist history
gender
gender roles
labor history
management
paternalism
retail
service industry
skilled labor
social history
United States
women's history
working class
workplace
Product details
- ISBN 9780252060137
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1987
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The luxurious appearance and handsome profits of American department stores from 1890 to 1940 masked a three-way struggle among saleswomen, managers, and customers for control of the selling floor. Counter Cultures explores the complex nature and contradictions of the conflict in an arena where class, gender, and the emerging culture of consumption all came together. The result is a fascinating illumination of the emotional labor of the workplace and the work-culture of consumerism that still defines the workday for millions of Americans.
Susan Porter Benson (d. 2005) taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Connecticut, and Yale University. She is the author of Household Accounts: Working-class Family Economies in the Interwar United States.
