Prosperity for all consumer activism in an era of globalization /

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Main Author: Hilton, Matthew
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the wealth of access
  • The fear of fortune : the uneasy consumer in an age of affluence
  • Cold war shoppers : consumerism as state project
  • Poverty amid prosperity : consumer protest beyond the affluent west
  • Consumers of the world unite : consumption and the new global order
  • The all-consuming network : the politics of protest in an age of consumption
  • Backlash : the corporate critique of consumerism
  • Choose life : consumer rights versus human rights
  • Shopping for justice : the freedom of free trade
  • Conclusion : the poverty of choice.