Commodifying everything : relationships of the market / / edited by Susan Strasser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453184403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 0-415-93591-1; 1-315-02360-1; 1-136-70685-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (528 p.)
• Collana: Hagley Center studies in the history of business and technology; Hagley perspectives on business and culture ; ; Volume 4; Hagley perspectives on business and culture
• Altri autori (Persone): StrasserSusan <1948->
• Disciplina: 339.4/7
• Soggetti: Consumption (Economics) - History; Commercial products - History; Relationship marketing - History; Electronic books.
• 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: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; I: Boundaries of the Market; Introduction; 1. The Give-and-Take of Consumer Culture; Notes; II: Love and Money: Intimate Relationships and the Market; 2. Buying Your Friends: The Pet Business and American Consumer Culture; The Trade in Birds; The Trade in Aquarium Fish; Pets as Commodities; Notes; 3. The Commodity of Self: Nineteenth-Century Human Hair Jewelry; Transformation to a Commodity of Self; The Tension between "Style" and "Artistry"; Eighteenth-Century Hair Workers; The Case of Samuel Folwell, the "Real" Hair Worker; Nineteenth-Century Hair WorkKatharine Schmitt, Hair Worker; "Gums and Bobbins": The Dangers of the Marketplace; Notes; III: Goods and Services: Expanding Market Relationships; 4. An Undesired Necessity: The Commodification of Medical Service in the Interwar United States; Merchants of Service; A Commodity Unlike any other; Disorderly Consumers; A Troublesome Kind of Commodity; Notes; 5. "Preserving Their Form and Features": The Commodification of Coffins in the ; American Understanding of Death; The Coffin in America: Gentility's Influence Established and Challenged; Respectability and the Commerce of DeathThe Metallic Burial Case: American Respectability and Modernity; Notes; IV: God and Mammon: Selling and the Sacred; 6. Healthcare as Product: Catholic Sisters Confront Charity and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925; Social and Medical Needs and the Hospital Marketplace; Entrepreneurial Enterprises; The Attraction of Scientific Medicine; Spiritual Agents of Care; Measures of Success; Spirituality as Commodity; Notes; 7. "Preachers and Peddlers of God": Ex-Slaves and the Selling of African-American Religion in the American South; Notes; 8. The Politics of Ghee Adulteration and Its Public Resolutions in Calcutta, c. 1917The Role of Ghee in Indian Cuisine; "Unwelcome Middlemen": The Marwari Community in Calcutta; The Adulteration of Bengal; Legislating Adulteration; Marwari Adulteration of Ghee in 1917; Legislation and its Role in Making Adulteration Visible; Postscript; Notes; V: Village and Nation: Community, Identity, and the Market; 9. Marketing Community: State Reform of Indian Village Property and Expenditure in Colonial Mexico, 1775-1810; The Remaking of Indian Society, 1521-1700; The Bourbon Reforms and their Impact in the Tierra CalienteIndian Reactions to the Bourbon Reforms; Conclusion; Notes; 10. Commodifying Chinese Nationalism: MSG and the Flavor of Patriotic Production; Creating a Nationalistic Consumer Culture; The Place of Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Movement; National Products Movement Biographies; A Capitalist with Chinese Characteristics; "I am a Local Product"; Defeating "Enemy Products"; The Limits of Patriotic Production; Purifying National Products of their Foreign Components; Broader Patriotic Activities; Biographies as Patriotic Packaging; Notes; 11. Packaging Skills: Calibrating Cheese to the Global Market
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Education and the culture of print in modern America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Adam R. Nelson and John L. Rudolph

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791356803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-55532-4; 9786612555329; 0-299-23613-7
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 225 p
• Collana: Print culture history in modern America
• Altri autori (Persone): NelsonAdam R; RudolphJohn L. <1964->
• Disciplina: 302.23/20973
• Soggetti: Mass media and education - United States - History; Education - Social aspects - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Education, print culture, and the negotiation of meaning in modern America / Adam R. Nelson -- Which truth, what fiction? : librarians' book recommendations for children, 1876-1890 / Kate McDowell -- A "Colored Authors Collection" to exhibit to the world and educate a race / Michael Benjamin -- Merry's flock : making something out of educational reform in the early twentieth century / Ryan K. Anderson -- Printed presence : twentieth-century Catholic print culture for youngsters in the United States / Robert A. Orsi -- Unschooled but not uneducated : print, public speaking, and the networks of informal working-class education, 1900-1940 / Frank Tobias Higbie -- "Write as you fight" : the pedagogical agenda of the Working woman, 1929-1935 / Jane Greer -- "A gentleman is no sissy" : reading, work, and citizenship in the Civilian Conservation Corps / Catherine Turner -- State regulation of the textbook industry / Adam R. Shapiro -- Teaching reading with television : constructing closed captioning using the rhetoric of literacy / Greg Downey -- Conclusion: Education, work, and the culture of print : directions for future research / James P. Danky.