A01=Alain Chatriot
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Author_Alain Chatriot
Author_Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel
Carolyn M. Goldstein
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consumer advocacy
Consumer Co-operative Movement
Consumer Movement
consumer movements history
consumer organisation historical analysis
Consumer Politics
consumption citizenship
Corporate Front Groups
De La Consommation
Developing World Consumers
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ethical consumption
Expert Consumer
Food Reform
Free Produce
Free Produce Activists
Free Produce Movement
FRG
Iselin Theien
Jean Brunhes
JoE Droux
Julien Vincent
Katherine Pence
Lawrence B. Glickman
Libre Des Sciences Sociales
Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel
marketplace regulation
Matthew Hilton
National Consumers League
Nutrition Experts
Odile Join-Lambert
Organised Consumer Movement
Price Control Act
Robert N. Mayer
SED Central Committee
SED Regime
Stiftung Warentest
transatlantic consumerism
UK Consumer
West Germany
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Culture
White Lists
Yves Lochard
Product details
- ISBN 9781138263079
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Recent work has focused on the politics of consumption and its manifestation in a number of situations. This volume extends these debates, providing a tighter focus and contributing to a noticeable gap in the field that numerous scholars are beginning to turn towards: that is, organizations of consumers themselves who have chosen to speak for all consumers and similar such bodies of experts which act on behalf of consumers. The volume is fortunate in drawing upon a number of scholars who are about to publish major works on the subject, but who are happy to provide summary versions of their work for the volume. The book pays particular attention to specific moments in consumer mobilization and expertise, capturing the range of types of expert consumers across the twentieth century, from ethical consumer groups at the beginning, to intellectuals, housewives, economists and public officials. It addresses questions on the nature of consumer organizing, which bodies can speak for consumers, whether one consumer voice can ever be identified and the relationship between consumption and citizenship. Overview pieces demonstrate the larger narratives involved in the study of the expert consumer, whilst more comparative essays set out the nature of transatlantic exchanges. Other contributions point to the similarities across seemingly different consumption regimes, while case studies of specific organisations and key historical moments draw out the particularities of consumer expertise.
Alain Chatriot and Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel are both researchers at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), France. Matthew Hilton is Reader in Social History at the University of Birmingham, UK.
