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,...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Loạt: | Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1628777 |
Mục lục:
- 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.