IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/reorpe/v39y2007i2p230-256.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Socialist Political Economies and the Growth of Mass Consumption in Britain and the United States, 1880 to 1914

Author

Listed:
  • Noel Thompson

    (History, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales, UK, n.thompson@swansea.ac.uk)

Abstract

The article discusses the reaction of socialist political economists in Britain and the United States to the onset of mass consumption among the working class. It considers their response to its impact on working-class aspirations, tastes, political sensibilities, and solidarity. It discusses too their views as to the form that consumption should take under socialism and how working-class consumption could be denuded of the social and other diseconomies that attached to it under capitalism.

Suggested Citation

  • Noel Thompson, 2007. "Socialist Political Economies and the Growth of Mass Consumption in Britain and the United States, 1880 to 1914," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 39(2), pages 230-256, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:39:y:2007:i:2:p:230-256
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://rrp.sagepub.com/content/39/2/230.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:39:y:2007:i:2:p:230-256. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.urpe.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.