Consumers Against Capitalism?: Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840D1990 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847686493 ISBN 13: 9780847686490

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

There is a growing scholarly interest in the historical development of what has been called a 'consumer society.' In this important collection of essays, historians from six different countries trace the history of the consumer cooperative movement in much of western Europe and North America from its inception to the present. The consumer cooperative, as the contributors show, bears directly on the role of socialist parties, the nascent feminist movement, and conceptions of the worker's role in a changing economy and society in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first book to explore consumer cooperation on a comparative, international level, Consumers Against Capitalism fills a significant gap in the literature of labor history. It also makes a significant contribution to the literature on consumerism and capitalist culture. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, women's history, and social movements.

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About the Author

Ellen Furlough is associate professor of history at Kenyon College and the author of Consumer Cooperation in France, 1834-1930: The Politics of Consumption (Cornell).

Carl Strikwerda is associate professor of history and chair of the European studies program at the University of Kansas. He is the author of A House Divided: Catholics, Socialists, and Flemish Nationalists in Nineteenth Century Belgium (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and the editor, with Camille Guerin-Gonzales, of The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy since 1830.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847686493
• ISBN 13: 9780847686490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Furlough Ellen