This collection of essays is a take on creating consumer products and consumer identities when what's for sale goes well beyond the thing itself. Editor(s): Strasser, Susan. Series: Hagley Center Studies in the History of Business and Technology. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422. . 2003. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Commodifying Everything: Relationships of the Market
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415935911
ISBN 13: 9780415935913
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Commodification refers most explicitly to the activities of turning things into commodities and of commercializing that which is not commercial in essence. The mass marketing of pets, the rise of the coffin industry, the conversion of preacher into salesmen, and the globalization of Taleggio cheese are some of the exciting but surprising topics in this volume that show how friendship, death, spirituality, and artisanship all have a price after being commodified. This unique collection of essays is a fascinating take on creating consumer products and consumer identities when what's for sale goes well beyond the thing itself. It will be a course-in-a-box for instructors who want to teach their students about commodification.

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Susan Strasser is a Professor of History at the University of Delaware. Her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of private and public: domestic experiences and American corporate activity. She is the author of several books including Waste and Want: A Social Historyof Trash and Never Done: A History of American Housework

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