From head shops to Whole Foods : the rise and fall of activist entrepreneurs /
In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts-including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers-brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other social movements into the marketplace. Through shared ownership,...
| المؤلف الرئيسي: | |
|---|---|
| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
| منشور في: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
|
| سلاسل: | Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
|
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1628777 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Introduction
- Activist business: origins and ideologies
- Liberation through literacy: African American bookstores, Black Power, and the mainstreaming of black books
- The business of getting high: head shops, countercultural capitalism, and the battle over marijuana
- "The feminist economic revolution": businesses in the women's movement
- Natural foods stores: environmental entrepreneurs and the perils of growth
- Perseverance and appropriation: activist business in the twenty-first century
- Conclusion.