| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
On the cusp of abundance -- Socialist political economy and the growth of mass consumption, 1880-1914 -- 'Punished by the attainment of their desires' : social democratic conceptions of consumption and the consumer in inter-war Britain -- Conceptualizing the consumer in an age of affluence -- Social democracy and the apotheosis of the consumer -- Gathering the fragments : critiquing the new consumerism -- Retrospect and prospect |
| Summary |
A study of the place of the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins to the modern Left, illustrating the multifaceted ideological challenge presented by the accommodation of the consumer within socialist political economy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 30, 2015) |
| Subject |
Socialism -- Great Britain -- Sources
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Economics -- Great Britain
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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Economics
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Socialism
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191016844 |
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0191016845 |
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9780191778490 |
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0191778494 |
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