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Auteur(s) : Woloson, Wendy A. (1964-....)
Titre(s) : Crap [Texte imprimé] : a history of cheap stuff in America / Wendy A. Woloson
Publication : Chicago (Ill.) : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (388 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Wendy Woloson considers seriously the detritus of everyday consumerist Western lives--a
category that comprises objects that function as art, jokes, tools, embodiments of
fantasies, cultural signifiers, status symbols, and much more; a.k.a. "crap." She
seeks to use these possessions to illuminate our society, culture, and economy. Why
do we--as individuals and as a culture--have these things? Where do they come from,
and why do we want them? In her words, this investigation "brings together material
culture, consumer culture, behavioral economics, cultural economics, the histories
of industrialization, capitalism and international trade, among other disciplines."
Also, there's a Lightning Sausage"
Sujet(s) : Nouveautés -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Abondance (économie politique) -- Société -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
688.72 (23e éd.) = Jouets (fabrication industrielle)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226664354. - ISBN 022666435X. - ISBN 9780226664491 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468316633
Notice n° :
FRBNF46831663
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : Our crap, our selves -- ; A nation of cheap jacks. ; From the cheapening
mania to universal cheapness ; ; Cheap goods in a chain store age -- ; Better living
through gadgetry. ; Perpetual improvements ; ; Gadget mania -- ; Land of the free.
; Getting nothing for something ; ; The price of loyalty -- ; (No) accounting for
taste. ; The business of heritage ; ; Connoisseurship for sale -- ; Value propositions.
; Collecting commemoration ; ; Manufacturing scarcity -- ; But wait, there's more.
; Joke's on you -- ; Epilogue : a world made of crap
