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Satisfaction Guaranteed
Satisfaction Guaranteed: the Making of the American Mass Market© 2004 Susan Strasser348 pages America was born of the frontier, its citizens people who by necessity often manufactured their own household requirements. This was the case throughout most of the 19th … Continue reading
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Tagged business, commerce, consumerism, critical history, Gilded Age, goods/services, history, marketing, social history, Susan Strasser
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Never Done
Never Done: A History of American Housework © 1982 Susan Strasser 365 pages Every time I turn around there’s something else to do Cook a meal or mend a sock or sweep a floor or two… (“Gonna Be an Engineer”, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, food, food and drink, history, social history, Susan Strasser, technology, Technology and Society
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Waste and Want
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash© 2000 Susan Strasser368 pages Consider your trash can. In all likelihood, you cannot imagine not using it. What else would you do all with the trash generated in the course … Continue reading
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Tagged civic awareness, economics, environmentalism, goods/services, infrastructure, Politics-CivicInterest, social history, Susan Strasser, waste
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