{"product_id":"shopping-for-change-louis-hyman-9781501709258","title":"Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions matter. Political consumers \"buy green\" for the environment or they \"buy pink\" to combat breast cancer. They boycott Taco Bell to support migrant workers or Burger King to save the rainforest.\u003cbr\u003eBut can we overcome the limitations of consumer identity, the conservative pull of consumer choice, co-optation by corporate marketers, and other pitfalls of consumer activism in order to marshal the possibilities of consumer power? Can we, quite literally, shop for change? \u003ci\u003eShopping for Change\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the historical and contemporary perspectives of academics and activists to show readers what has been possible for consumer activists in the past and what might be possible for today's consumer activists.Contributors\u003cbr\u003eKyle Asquith, University of Windsor; Dawson Barrett, Del Mar College; Lawrence Black, University of York; Madeline Brambilla, Northeastern University; Joshua Carreiro, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA; H. Louise Davis, Miami University; Jeffrey Demsky, San Bernardino Valley College; Tracey Deutsch, University of Minnesota?Twin Cities; Mara Einstein, Queens College, CUNY; Bart Elmore, University of Alabama; Sarah Elvins, University of Manitoba; Daniel Faber, Northeastern University; Julie Guard, University of Manitoba; Louis Hyman, ILR School, Cornell University; Meredith Katz, Virginia Commonwealth University; Randall Kaufman, Miami Dade College?Homestead Campus; Larry Kirsh, IMR Health Economics, Portland, OR; Katrina Lacher, University of Central Oklahoma; Bettina Liverant, University of Calgary; Amy Lubitow, Portland State University; Robert N. Mayer, University of Utah; Michelle McDonald, Stockton University; Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy, John Carroll University; Mark W. Robbins, Del Mar College;\u003cbr\u003eJessica Stewart, Cornell University;Joseph Tohill, York University and Ryerson University; Allison Ward, Queen's University and McMaster University; Philip Wight, Brandeis University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louis Hyman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501709259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501709258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ILR Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis Hyman is an Associate Professor of History at the ILR School of Cornell University, the cofounder of Cornell's History of Capitalism Initiative, and the incoming director of ILR's Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDebtor Nation\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003e The History of America in Red Ink\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBorrow\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e. Joseph Tohill teaches twentieth-century American and Canadian history at York University and Ryerson University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louis Hyman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169866182911,"sku":"9781501709258","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39d8331c-02c8-4494-8467-ed8cee969f08.jpg?v=1689655378","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shopping-for-change-louis-hyman-9781501709258","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}