consumer culture bibliography

This bibliography contains about 1,500 references on consumer culture drawn from my personal database. It therefore reflects my own interests (social theory, economic sociology and history, leisure, advertising and marketing). Also check out the bibliographies on market society and on internet culture.

Please email me any errors or omissions. The current list was generated on 2 May 1999.You can download the whole bibliography as a single zip file, either as a text file or a Word97 file.

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Abercrombie, N., S. Hill, et al. (1986) Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism, London: Allen & Unwin.

Abrams, M. (1959) The Teenage Consumer.

Ackroyd, P. (1979) Dressing Up, Londno: Thames and Hudson.

Adburgham, A. (1979) Shopping in Style: London from the restoration to Edwardian elegance, London: Thames and Hudson.

Adburgham, A. (1981) Shops and Shopping, London: Barrie & Jenkins.

Adkins, L. (1995) Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and Labour Market, Buckingham: Open University Press.

Adler, R. P. (1980) The effect of advertising on children: review and recommendations, Lexington, MA: ?

Adorno, T. (1941) ‘Veblen's attack on culture’, Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences 9: 389-413.

Adorno, T. (1975) ‘Culture Industry Reconsidered’, New German Critique vol 6 (Fall 1.

Adorno, T. (1991) ‘Culture industry reconsidered’, in T. Adorno (ed.), The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture, London: Routledge.

Adorno, T. (1991) The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture, London: Routledge.

Adorno, T. (1991) ‘On the fetish character of music and the regression of listening’, in T. Adorno (ed.), The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture, London: Routledge.

Adorno, T. and M. Horkheimer (1979) ‘The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’, in T. Adorno and M. Horkheimer (eds.), Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verso.

Adorno, T. and M. Horkheimer (1979) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verso.

Adshead, S. A. M. (1997) Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800: The Rise of Consumerism, Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Aglietta, M. (1979) A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience, London: Verso.

Aglietta, M. (1979 [1976]) A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience, London: Verso.

Agnew, J. (1986) Worlds Apart: the Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Agnew, J.-C. (1993) ‘Coming up for air: consumer culture in historical perspective’, in J. Brewer and R. Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods, New York: Routledge: 19-39.

Albert, E. (1984) ‘Equipment as a feature of social control in the sport of bicycle racing’, in N. Theberge and P. Donnelly (eds.), Sport and the Sociological Imagination, Fort Worth, Tex: Texas Christian University Press.

Aldridge, A. (1994) ‘The construction of rational consumption in Which? magazine: the more blobs the better?’, Sociology 28(4): 899-912.

Aldridge, A. (1997) ‘Engaging with promotional culture: organised consumerism and personal financial services industry’, Socioloy 31(3): 389-408.

Alexander, D. (1970) Retailing in England during the Industrial Revolution, London: Athlone Press.

Alfino, M., J. Caputo, et al., (eds.) (1998) McDonaldization Revisited : Critical Essays on Consumer Culture. London: Praeger.

Allen, G. and G. Crow, (eds.) (1989) Home and Family. London: Macmillan.

Allen, J. S. (1983) The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Culture Reform, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Allen, J. T. (1980) ‘The film viewer as consumer’, Quarterly Review of Film Studies 5(4): 481-99.

ALmond, K. (1988) ‘Public image versus private self: the tragedy of camp dressing’, in J. Ash and L. Wright (eds.), Components of Dress: design, manufacturing and image- making in the fashion industry, London: Routledge.

Alt, J. D. (1977) Leisure, Labor and Consumption: a critical sociology of reification, Ann arbor: Michigan University Microfilms.

Altick, R. D. (1978) The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions, 1600-1862, Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press.

Altvater, E. (1993) The Future of the Market: An Essay on the Regulation of Money and Nature after the Collapse of 'Actually Existing Socialism', London: Verso.

Amin, A. and N. Thrift (1997) ‘Globalization, socio-economics, territoriality’, in R. Lee and J. Wills (eds.), Geographies of Economies, London: Arnold.

Amirou, R. (1988) ‘Sociability/sociality’, Current Sociology 36: 115-20.

Anderson, M. H. (1981) ‘China's great leap' toward Madison Avenue’, Journal of Communications 31 (1): 10-22.

Anderson, R., J. Hughes, et al. (1987) ‘Executive problem finding’, Social Psychology Quarterly 50(2): 143-159.

Antonides, G. and W. F. V. Raaij (1998) Consumer Behaviour : A European Perspective.

Appadurai, A. (1986) The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Appadurai, A. (1990) ‘Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy’, Theory, Culture and Society 7: 295-310.

Appleby, J. (1976) ‘Ideology and theory: the tension between political and economic liberalism in severnteenth century England’, American Historical Review lxxxi: 499-515.

Appleby, J. (1984) Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s, New York.

Appleby, J. (1993) ‘Consumption in early modern social thought’, in J. Brewer and R. Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods, New York: Routledge: 162-73.

Aran, G. (1974) ‘Parachuting’, American Journal of Sociology 80.

Arendt, H. (1958) The Human Condition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Aries, P. (1973) Centuries of Childhood, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Armstrong, L. (1993) Working Girls. Vogue. October.

Arnould, E. and R. Wilk (1984) ‘Why do the natives weear Adidas?’, Advances in Consumer Research 11: 748-52.

Ash, J. (1989) ‘The Business of Couture’, in A. McRobbie (ed.), Zoots Suits and Second Hand Dresses, London: McMillan Education Ltd.

Ash, J. and E. Wilson, (eds.) (1992) Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader. London: Pandora Press.

Ash, J. and L. Wright, (eds.) (1988) Components of dress design, manufacturing, and image-making in the fashion industry. London: Routledge.

Ashton, J. (1885) Old Times, New York.

Assael, H. (1978) Early Development and Conceptualization of the field of Marketing, New York: Arno.

Atali, J. (1985) Noise: the Political Economy of Music, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Atlas, J. (1984) ‘Beyond Demographics’, Atlantic Monthly 254 1984.

Attfield, J. and P. Kirkham, (eds.) (1989) A View From the Interior: Feminism, Women and Design. London: Virago.

Atwan, R., D. McQuade, et al. (1979) Edsels, Luckies and Frigidaires: Advertising the American Way, New York: Dell.

Axtell, J. (1985) The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, New York.

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