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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786175003321

Autore

Milanesio Natalia <1974->

Titolo

Workers go shopping in Argentina [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of popular consumer culture / / Natalia Milanesio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico, c2013

ISBN

1-283-95996-8

0-8263-5243-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

306.30982

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Argentina

Consumers - Argentina - History - 20th century

Working class - Argentina - History

Argentina Economic conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Industry, wages, and the state: the rise of popular consumer culture -- Surveys and campaigns : discovering and reaching the worker-consumer -- Commercial culture becomes popular : advertising and the challenges of a changing market -- How can a garbage collector be on the same level as we are? : upper- and middle-class anxieties over working-class consumers -- Love in the time of mass consumption -- Tales of consumers : memory and working-class material culture -- Epilogue : consumer culture today.

Sommario/riassunto

"Dr. Milanesio examines the ways mass consumption transformed Argentina in the twentieth century in a comprehensive analysis of the relations between consumers, goods, manufacturers, advertisers, and the state during Juan Perón's reign. She examines the social and political changes that occurred when the general population became consumers of industrial goods and participants in consumption"--Provided by publisher.