Ads targeted at kids are virtually everywhere - in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at Girl Scout meetings, slumber parties, and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television. Drawing on her own survey research and unprecedented access to the advertising ...
This pathbreaking book documents for the first time the unanticipated decline in leisure both at work and in the home over the last twenty years and explains why Americans enjoy less leisure today than at any other time since the end of World War II.. This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder ...
"Thick with survey data, less taxing than a saunter through Saks, Schor's study is a scornful indictment of consumerism--which, she argues, has created a nation of debtors but failed to fill a gaping cultural maw. . . . This is the stuff from which revolutions are made ("Entertainment Weekly.)" Photos.
Over the last fifteen years children's spending power has mushroomed to an estimated USD30 billion in direct purchases and another USD600 billion of influence over parental purchases. Advertising and marketing has exploded alongside expenditures and now totals more than USD12 billion a year. Ads targeted at children are virtually everywhere - in ...
A unique and definitive read on our "national passion"--buying stuff--and its consequences for American society, this landmark work of social criticism is sure to become the standard book on the subject.
An in-depth look at the corruption of the American Dream, the follow-up to the the Overworked American examines the consumer lives of Americans and the pitfalls of keeping up with the Joneses. Schor explains how and why the purchases of others in our social and professional communities can put pressure on us to spend more than we can afford to, ...
Americans today work more, earn less, and fret about the environment, health care, and poverty. In this book, the author of the bestselling "The Overworked American" lays out an ambitious but realistic economic plan to increase leisure time, raise the minimum wage, change corporate culture, and promote social accountability.
An engaging activist guide to closing the gap between the rich and everyone else in America. Thoroughly illustrated with charts, graphs, and political cartoons, Economic Apartheid in America is an action-oriented, movement-building guide to closing the widening gap between the rich and everyone else in this country. Published in conjunction with ...
Juliet Schor breaks a taboo by exposing Americans' shopping habits to moral society. Schor disapproves of unfettered private consumption, not only because we already use up so much, but also because overspending to bolster a sense of self does not lead to happiness. Along with her critique, Schor suggests intriguing ideas for making 'status' goods ...
These 11 essays are the prize-winning entrants in the fifth Essay Competition run by the AMEX Bank Review. The essays are divided into three groups. The first focuses on trade bloc issues, asking whether a yen bloc is emerging, whether trade blocs are to be welcomed or discouraged and whether growth maximization by Japanese firms offers some ...
WIDER The World Institute for Development Economics Research, established in 1984, started work in Helsinki in 1985, with the financial support of the Government of Finland. Its principal purpose is to help identify and meet the need for policy-oriented socio-economic research on pressing global and developmental problems and their inter ...
This work concerns transformation processes in labour relations and in production systems in the 1980s. It describes new industrial and occupational patterns, as well as technological progress and the implications of the end of the Welfare State. Old practices are assessed.
Edition: 8vo. 1st edition. xvii, [3], 247 pp (including Index).
Binding: Dark blue cloth spine with black paper-wrapped boards. Gilt
Publisher: Basic Books,
Date Published: (1991).
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS * CIVITAS
Date Published: 1991
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