Consumerism books

1375 books were found.

The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure: Habermas and Leisure at the End of Modernity

The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure: Habermas and Leisure...

Author: K. Spracklen
ISBN: 9780230205253
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
ISBN: 9780674033511
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine...  Read More >>

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of the Christian Free Enterprise

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of the Christian...

Author: Bethany Moreton
ISBN: 9780674033221
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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Fair Bananas!: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry

Fair Bananas!: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive...

Author: Henry J. Frundt
ISBN: 9780816528363
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Fair Bananas! is one of the first books to examine the issue of “fair-trade bananas.” Specifically, Henry Frundt...  Read More >>

Consuming China: Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China

Consuming China: Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary...

Author: Kevin Latham (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK) ,  Stuart Thompson (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415546867
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Drawing on case studies from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, this extraordinary volume affords a greater understanding...  Read More >>

Economic Sociology of Work

Economic Sociology of Work

Author: Nina Bandelj
ISBN: 9781848553682
Format: Hardback
$311.95

Economic sociology is a vibrant area of research investigating how social structures, power allocations and cultural...  Read More >>

Fair Bananas!: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry

Fair Bananas!: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive...

Author: Henry J. Frundt
ISBN: 9780816527205
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Fair Bananas! is one of the first books to examine the issue of fair-trade bananas. Specifically, Henry Frundt...  Read More >>

Fresh: A Perishable History

Fresh: A Perishable History

Author: Susanne Freidberg
ISBN: 9780674032910
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Traces our paradoxical hunger to its roots in the rise of mass consumption, when freshness seemed both proof of...  Read More >>

Retail Anarchy: A Radical Shopper's Adventures in Consumption

Retail Anarchy: A Radical Shopper's Adventures in Consumption...

Author: Sam Pocker
ISBN: 9780762434398
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Why does no one blink when they are charged almost 2 pounds for a cup of coffee? Why do men sleep on the street...  Read More >>

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

Author: Carolyn Steel
ISBN: 9780099531685
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence. This title reveals...  Read More >>

Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture

Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer...

Author: Allison Pugh ,  Alison J. Pugh
ISBN: 9780520258440
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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The Economics of Hate

The Economics of Hate

Author: Samuel Cameron
ISBN: 9781847200471
Format: Hardback
$241.35

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Charity Shopping: The Thrift Lifestyle

Charity Shopping: The Thrift Lifestyle

Author: Lettice Wilkinson
ISBN: 9780714531496
Format: Paperback
$25.85

An examination of thrift shopping internationally that also looks at the politics behind new retail formats.  Read More >>

Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles

Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles...

Author: Harriet Lamb
ISBN: 9781846040849
Format: Paperback
$32.99

It started very small and full of hope. But its daring campaigns have placed Fairtrade goods at the heart of the...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication

Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication

Author: A. Anderson ,  A. Petersen
ISBN: 9780230506930
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since 1880

Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since...

Author: Sean O'Connell (Senior Lecturer, School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University, Belfast)
ISBN: 9780199263318
Format: Hardback
$296.00

Sean O'Connell examines the history of consumer credit and debt in working class communities. Concentrating on forms...  Read More >>

Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles

Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer...

Author: Ian Jones ,  Paul Higgs
ISBN: 9781412808576
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The study of consumption in social life is growing  Read More >>

Rethinking Consumer Behaviour for the Well-being of All: Reflections on Individual Consumer Responsibility

Rethinking Consumer Behaviour for the Well-being of...

Author: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287164827
Format: Paperback
$147.84

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