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Author Milanesio, Natalia, 1974-

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

Imprint Albuquerque : University of New Mexico, c2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 307 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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 Peron'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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Argentina.
Consumers -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century.
Working class -- Argentina -- History.
Argentina -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780826352415 (cloth alk. paper)
9780826352439 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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