The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture

by Tad Skotnicki

Book Overview

When people encounter consumer goods--sugar, clothes, phones--they find little to no information about their origins. The goods will thus remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will remain obscured. In this book, Tad Skotnicki argues that this encounter is an endemic feature of capitalist societies, and one with which consumers have struggled for centuries in the form of activist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503614638
• ISBN13: 9781503614635
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"