Imagining Consumers : Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning / / Regina Lee Blaszczyk.
In contrast, companies that tried to stimulate desire, reshape taste, and encourage profligate spending by using the tools of persuasion - mass advertising, extravagant styling, and installment selling - found their efforts thwarted, for consumers refused to buy products that they did not really wan...
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Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in industry and society.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages :); illustrations, plates). |
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Table of Contents:
- Cinderella Stories
- China Mania
- Beauty for a Dime
- Fiesta!
- Better Products for Better Homes
- Pyrex Pioneers
- Easier Living?
- Essay on Sources.