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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stole, Inger L. (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press 2006.
Series:The History of communication
Subjects:
Online Access:Sumario
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Table of Contents:
  • The rise of a corporate culture : early consumer response
  • Advertising challenged : the creation of consumers' research and the rise of the 1930s consumer movement
  • The drive for legislation to establish federal advertising regulation, 1933-1935
  • A consumer movement divided : the birth of Consumers Union Inc.
  • Defining the "consumer agenda," the business community joins the Frey
  • Legislative closure : the Wheeler-Lea Amendment
  • Witch hunt, red baiting, and the end to the radical critique of advertising.