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Middle class union organizing the "consuming public" in post-World War I America
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Title
Middle class union [electronic resource] : organizing the "consuming public" in post-World War I America / Mark W. Robbins.
ISBN
0472122797
9780472122790
0472130331
9780472130337 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 History.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 29, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Politicizing consumption in the community: middle class consumer organizing during the Progressive era and World War I
Becoming producers and avoiding the middleman: home garden and municipal market campaigns
The "flying squadron" declares war on the profiteers: the high cost of living division and federally sponsored middle-class consumer organizing
A nation in overalls: middle-class clothing boycotts
Rent war! Middle-class tenant organizing
Epilogue: toward a middle class union.
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