Retail and Community : Business, Charity and the End of Empire

• Autore: Awal Nadia
• Pubblicazione: Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages)
• Soggetto topico: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History
• Altri autori: FieldJessica <1978-> FittonTriona GehrhardtMajorie GilbertJenny GrayNick KevalHarshad MacDonaldRuth MitchellIan PapiniMassimiliano
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Retail and Community: English Experiences and International Encounters in the Long 20th Century -- The Commodification of Japanese Culture in Transcultural Charity Bazaars: The Mikado Festival and Feast of Lanterns in Darlington, 1887 -- Hall and Spindler, Bespoke Tailors and Outfitters of Leamington Spa, 1878-1895: A Study in Retail Credit, Trust and Loyalty -- Shopkeeper and Educator: Aspects of the Co-operative Movement in England, 1870-1914 -- 'By the Army, for the Army': The Salvation Army's Early Retail Activities, Criticisms and Responses in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- A Labour of Love: The Role of Retail in Salvation Army Rescue Work for Women -- Much More than a Gossip Shop: Black Country Independent Womenswear Retail, Family and Community -- Charity, Community and Trade: The British Charity Shop, 1940s-1970s -- Empire of Charity: The British 'Helping Hand' in South African Charity Shops, 1971-1972 -- Race, Retailing and the Windrush Generation: Principle and Practice in the John Lewis Partnership's Recruitment of Commonwealth Arrivals, 1950-1962 -- Encounters at the Counter: Race, Class and Belonging in the British Asian Corner Shop -- 'The Grocer Carried Me for Three Months': Retail Support for Workers Involved in Extended Industrial Disputes -- Understanding the 'Gift' in the Post-Economic Downturn Charity Shop -- Reflections -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local and the global, between the late-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.
• Titolo autorizzato: Retail and Community
• ISBN: 1-5292-3526-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910857779103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II