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A prophetic look at a nightmare future consumer society that has become our present in which production is predicated on the instant obsolescence of the goods made - creating a society in which pride in solid craftmanship has been replaced by one with a trash ethic in which everything is disposable and replaceable. A society in which wastefulness with the limited resources and raw materials of planet Earth is the motor of society - forestalling for a limited time the inevitable day of reckoning...

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Vance Packard (1914-1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and best-selling author. Among his other books were The Hidden Persuaders, about how advertisers use psychological methods to get people to buy the products they sell, The Status Seekers, which describes American social stratification and behavior, and The Naked Society, about the threats to privacy posed by new technologies.

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  • PublisherLongmans
  • Publication date1961
  • ISBN 10 0582108500
  • ISBN 13 9780582108509
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages340
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