Advertising on trial : consumer activism and corporate public relations in the 1930s /

Main Author: Stole, Inger L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • The rise of a corporate culture : early consumer response
  • Advertising challenged : the creation of Consumers' Research Inc. and the rise of the 1930s consumer movement
  • The drive for federal advertising regulation, 1933-1935
  • A consumer movement divided : the birth of Consumers Union of the United States Inc.
  • Defining the consumer agenda : the business community joins the Fray
  • Legislative closure : the Wheeler-Lea Amendment
  • Red-baiting the consumer movement.