Time and money : the making of consumer culture

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Time and money : the making of consumer culture

Gary Cross

Routledge, 1993

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780415070027

内容説明

Gary Cross tackles one of the great conundrums of modern society: why, despite quantum leaps in technology and production methods, do we never have either enough money, or enough time? He argues that in the 1920s and 30s, advanced Western societies opted for consumerism (rather than more leisure, and a different approach to culture), creating insatiable needs which oblige us to work more than industrialism requires. In this wide-ranging analysis, he explains how consumerism prevailed over alternative uses of economic growth. Encompassing both the American and European experience, this book reveals a history neglected by both optimists and pessimists of popular culture. By linking mass consumption to changing meanings of free time, Gary Cross offers a fresh context for understanding the dilemmas of modern consumerism.

目次

1. Dilemmas of Time and Money 2. The Modern Moral Economy of Needs 3. Barriers and Bridges: Cultural Elites and the Democratization of Time and Money 4. Time Becomes Money: The Politics of Distribution and Recovery 5. Democratic Leisure and the Failure of Cultural Politics 6. Traumas of Time and Money in Prosperity and Depression 7. The Consumer's Comfort and Dream 8. Consumerist Modernity: An End of History?.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780415088558

内容説明

New mass production methods after World War I intensified the debate over the allocation of growth in the advanced industrial societies, resulting eventually in a new balance of production and consumption as the routine of the 40 hour week and the annual holiday became the norm. Gary Cross provides a comparative and wide-ranging historical analysis of the work-and-spend ethic, exploring American, British and French patterns of organizing free time. Covering the emergence of a consumer society in the 1920s and 30s, through the mass consumerism of the 1950s to trends in the present day, he provides a new perspective on the history of consumerism by placing contemporary dilemmas and responses to the question of `time and money' in their historical context. He links the modern culture of consumerism with trends in work, leisure, cultural politics and political economy to create a subtle analysis of complex social phenomena.

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