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Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture

ISBN: 9780826352439 ;ISBN: 082635243X ;ISBN: 0826352413 ;ISBN: 9780826352415 ;EISBN: 9780826352439 ;EISBN: 082635243X ;OCLC: 824698504

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    Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture
  • Author: Milanesio, Natalia
  • Subjects: 20th century ; Advertising ; Argentina ; Consumerism ; Consumers ; Consumption ; Consumption (Economics) ; Economic conditions ; HISTORY ; Latin America ; Material culture ; Popular culture ; Shopping ; Working class
  • Description: In 1951 an Argentine newspaper announced that the standard of living of workers in Argentina was "the highest in the world." More than half a century later, Argentines still look back to the mid-twentieth century as the "golden years of Peronism, " a time when working people, who had struggled to make ends meet a few years earlier, could now buy ready-made clothing, radios, and even big-ticket items like refrigerators. Milanesio explores this period marked by populist politics, industrialization, and a fairer distribution of the national income by analyzing the relations among consumers, consumer goods, manufacturers, advertising agents, and Juan Domingo Perón's government (1946–1955). Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the methodologies of social, cultural, and oral histories, Milanesio shows the exceptional cultural and social visibility of low-income consumers in postwar Argentina along with their unprecedented economic and political influence. Her study reveals the scope of the remarkable transformations fueled by the new market by examining the language and aesthetics of advertisement, the rise of middle- and upper-class anxieties, and the profound changes in gender expectations.
  • Publisher: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 320 pages
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780826352439
    ISBN: 082635243X
    ISBN: 0826352413
    ISBN: 9780826352415
    EISBN: 9780826352439
    EISBN: 082635243X
    OCLC: 824698504
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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