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Author Skotnicki, Tad, author.

Title The sympathetic consumer : moral critique in capitalist culture / Tad Skotnicki
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) : illustrations
Series Culture and economic life
Culture and economic life.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 01, 2021)
Subject Consumer movements -- United States -- History
Consumer movements -- Great Britain -- History
Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History
Consumers' leagues -- Great Britain -- History
Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History
Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
Consumer movements
Consumers' leagues
Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020033194
ISBN 9781503627741
1503627748