Shopping for Change : Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power.

Shopping FOR CHANGE -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Shopping for Change -- 1. Consuming with a Conscience: The Free Produce Movement in Early America -- 2. Boycotts, Buycotts, and Legislation: Tactical Lessons from Workers and Consumers during the Progressive Era -- 3. Making a Market for Consumers: The Calgary Consumers League and the High Cost of Living -- 4. Making a Middle-Class "Public": Middle-Class Consumer Activism in Post-First World War America -- 5. You Are Purchasing Prosperity!: Local Buying Initiatives and Women as Conscious Consumers in the Great Depression -- 6. Making Money in Hard Times: Scrip and Grassroots Efforts to Solve the Great Depression -- 7. Protecting the "Guinea Pig Children": Resisting Children's Food Advertising in the 1930s -- 8. Our Economic Way Out: Black American Consumers' Co-operation in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 9. Not Buying It: Reconsidering American Consumer Opposition to Nazi Anti-Semitism -- 10. Canada's Citizen Housewives: Cold War Anti-Communism and the Limits of Maternalism -- 11. "The Consumer Goes to War": Consumer Politics in the United States and Canada during the Second World War -- 12. From the Great Society to Giant: Esther Peterson and the Politics of Shopping -- 13. The Countercultural Roots of Green Consumerism -- 14. Purchasing Change: The (Un)Intended Consequences of Biofuel Consumption on the World's Poor -- 15. Buying a Better World: From Cause Marketing to Social Innovation, Can Consumption Create Positive Social Change? -- 16. What about the Cause?: The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the Pinkwashing of Breast Cancer Activism -- 17. The Making of a Coke CAN: Coca-Cola's Civic Action Network (CAN) and the Seeding of Corporate Astroturf Campaigns, 1995-2015 -- 18. Boot the Bell: Solidarity as Strategy in the Neoliberal Era.

19. Where's the Beef . . . From?: Boycotting Burger King to Protect Central American Rainforests -- 20. The Sweatshop Effect: Consumer Activism and the Anti-Sweatshop Movement on College Campuses -- 21. Hating Wal-Mart, Loving Target, and the Contradictions of Supply Chain Capitalism -- 22. Ports are the New Factories: Supply Chains and Labour Power in the Twenty-First Century -- 23. To Speak in One Voice: Dynamics of a Cross-Movement Coalition for Financial Reform -- 24. On DemandTracey Deutsch -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index.

Shopping for Change brings together the historical and contemporary perspectives of academics and activists to show readers what has been possible for consumer activists in the past and what might be possible for today's consumer activists.

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