The rise of the sympathetic consumer -- Abolitionist visions -- Turn-of-the-twentieth-century visions -- Practicing sympathetic consumption -- Moral arguments -- The sympathetic consumer, challenged -- Whither the sympathetic consumer?
Summary
"When people encounter goods in the marketplace - sugar, clothes, phones, etc. - there is a slim chance they will seek information about the origins of those goods. Far more likely is that the goods will remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will stay mysterious, distant, unacknowledged. In this book, Tad Skotnicki argues that this phenomenon is an endemic feature of capitalist societies"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 01, 2021)