"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 globalizati…
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Provides a history of waste and waste removal throughout the twentieth century. Focuses on the transition from a society based on reusing and recycling to one that prioritizes disposability, materialism, and convenience. Attributes most of the trends discussed with changes in th…
« Susan Strasser’s pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of mean…
Provides a history of waste and waste removal throughout the twentieth century. Focuses on the transition from a society based on reusing and recycling to one that prioritizes disposability, materialism, and convenience. Attributes most of the trends discussed with changes in th…