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Bulletin
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Consumers' Guide
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The Sympathetic Consumer
When people encounter consumer goods—sugar, clothes, phones—they find little to no information about their origins. The goods will thus remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will remain obscured. In this book, Tad Skotnicki argues that this encounter is an endemic feature of capitalist societies, and one with which consumers have struggled for centuries in the form of activist movements constructed around what he calls The Sympathetic Consumer. This book documents the uncanny similarities shared by such movements over the course of three centuries: the transatlantic abolitionist movement, US and English consumer movement...
Hostages of Fortune
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Our Own Time
Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of the working day has been the central issue for the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of activity, uniting workers along lines of craft, gender and ethnicity. The authors hold that the workweek is likely again to take on increased significance as workers face the choice between a society based on free time and one based on alienated work and unemployment.
Truth in Lending, 1963-64: August 16 and 17, 1963, New York, N.Y. ; August 23, 1963, Pittsburgh, PA
Considers S. 750, the Truth in Lending Act, to require the full disclosure of finance charges on credit by lenders and credit sellers. Aug. 16 and 17 hearings were held in NYC; and Aug. 23 hearing was held in Pittsburgh, Pa.and August 24 hearing was held in Louisville, KY. and November 22, 1963, and January 11, 1964, hearings were held in Boston, Mass.
Buying Power
A definitive history of consumer activism, Buying Power traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation’s founding, revealing that Americans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott even entered our lexicon. Taking the Boston Tea Party as his starting point, Lawrence Glickman argues that the rejection of British imports by revolutionary patriots inaugurated a continuous series of consumer boycotts, campaigns for safe and ethical consumption, and efforts to make goods more broadly accessible. He explores abolitionist-led efforts to eschew slave-made goods, African American consumer campaigns against Jim Crow, a 1930s refusal o...
Domestic Commerce
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