Status
Available
Publication
The New Press (2000), Edition: 1st, 502 pages
Description
The Consumer Society Reader is the most substantial collection of classic and contemporary readings on consumption and consumer society for students of cultural studies and sociology of culture. From Karl Marx to Jean Baudrillard, the volume introduces students and researchers to the topics, themes, and preoccupations of twentieth-century consumer culture.
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LibraryThing member wonderperson
Basic undergraduate Primer consisting of Readings explaining and arguing various aspects of Consumer Culture Theory and Practice as in 1980's in the Thatcher Reagan era when there was the beginnings of Capitalism embedding itself, by dismantling previous Market regimes.