Stichting Historie der Techniek Manufacturing technology, manufacturing consumers

the making of Dutch consumer society

The authors describe how twentieth-century technologies became socially embedded through the activities and interactions of new institutions and organizations, including state agencies, consumer and producer associations, corporate organizations, and research institutes. They argue that these institutional actors simultaneously imaged, represented, projected, negotiated and produced new products, consumer practices, and ideas about the consumer. The room for negotiation these actors possessed in...

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Engels | 249 pagina's | Aksant, Amsterdam | 2009

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