Prosperity for all : consumer activism in an era of globalization / / Matthew Hilton.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 315 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the wealth of access
- The fear of fortune : the uneasy consumer in an age of affluence
- Cold war shoppers : consumerism as state project
- Poverty amid prosperity : consumer protest beyond the affluent west
- Consumers of the world unite : consumption and the new global order
- The all-consuming network : the politics of protest in an age of consumption
- Backlash : the corporate critique of consumerism
- Choose life : consumer rights versus human rights
- Shopping for justice : the freedom of free trade
- Conclusion : the poverty of choice.