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- Selling Out or Buying In?
- Publication Name
- Selling Out or Buying In? : Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985
- Title
- Selling Out or Buying In?
- Subtitle
- Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985
- ISBN-10
- 1487521863
- EAN
- 9781487521868
- ISBN
- 9781487521868
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2018
- Release Date
- 19/05/2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CA
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 12.7 Oz
- Genre
- History
- Subject
- Canada / General, Consumer Behavior, World / Canadian, Economic Conditions, General, Economics / General
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, History, Political Science
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today's consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sundays. Since that decade, however, British Columbians, and Canadians generally, have made significant strides in gaining greater and easier access to consumer goods. Selling Out or Buying In? is the first work to illuminate the process by which consumers' access to goods and services was liberalized and deregulated in Canada in the second half of the twentieth century. Michael Dawson's engagingly written and detailed exploration of the debates amongst everyday citizens and politicians regarding the pros and cons of expanding shopping opportunities, challenges the assumption of inevitability surrounding Canada's emergence as a consumer society. The expansion of store hours was a highly contested and contingent development that pitted employees, owners and regulators against one another. Dawson's nuanced analysis of archival and newspaper sources reveals the strains that modern capitalism imparted upon the accepted and established rhythms of daily life.
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University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1487521863
ISBN-13
9781487521868
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27067507113
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Publication Name
Selling Out or Buying In? : Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Canada / General, Consumer Behavior, World / Canadian, Economic Conditions, General, Economics / General
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
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"As Selling Out or Buying In? convincingly argues, there is nothing natural or inevitable about contemporary Canada's 'wide-open' around-the-clock shopping hours. In historicizing this phenomenon, Michael Dawson sheds light on the circuitous paths that have led to the current shopping context, questioning the assumption that it results from a combination of the 'insatiable demand of consumers' and the 'entrepreneurial initiative of retailers.' In the process, he also reveals the wide-ranging political, social, cultural, ideological, and religious tensions that simmered on the surface of these debates and that together reveal the 'contingent and contested nature of consumerism' in the country." --Nicolas Kenny, Department of History, Simon Fraser University "Situating a series of historical episodes in context, Selling Out or Buying In? augments earlier studies of consumerism that defined people as consumers in both cultural and economic terms. Dawson's work also takes another set of variables into consideration: the conditions under which consumers could expect to purchase goods, the implications of those conditions for workers and days of rest, and the slippery ideas of free enterprise and democracy, to name a handful." --Len Kuffert, Department of History, University of Manitoba, "Dawson is optimistic about our own agency to break out of the prison house of consumerism..." --Dr. Matthew J. Bellamy, BC Studies, online "This well-researched engaging monograph uncovers the complex debates over store-hour restrictions that shaped the retail landscape of Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, in the post-Second World War period." --Vicki Howard, University of Essex, Histoire Sociale/Social History, vol 52 no 105, May '19 "Thick descriptions of the kind presented by Dawson are valuable, and, when written engagingly, as this study is, they make for a pleasant read." --David Monod, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018
Table of Content
Introduction Santa's Lament Chapter 1 Conflict: Restricting & Liberalizing Store Hours Chapter 2 Community: Tourism, Leisure, and the Quest for Civic Prosperity Chapter 3 Leverage: The Rhetoric and Reality of Chain Store Dominance Chapter 4 Morality: Women, Families & Consumer Convenience Chapter 5 Regulation: Evasion and Enforcement Chapter 6 Ideology: The Cold War and the Public Sphere Chapter 7 Religion: Sunday Shopping's Multiple Battlegrounds Conclusion Bibliography
Copyright Date
2018
Dewey Decimal
339.4/70971128
Dewey Edition
23
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