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Anti-consumerism: Connexipedia Article
Article
The socio-political movement against consumerism, the equation of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions.
Consumer Hell
Monbiot, George
Article
2010
The problem with gross domestic product is that there are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, soci...
Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Nader, Ralph
Article
2018
Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobil...
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
Papanek, Victor
Book
1970
While two-thirds of the world's population lives in poverty, valuable human and natural resources are used to produce: fur-covered toilet seats, electronic nail polish dryers, diapers for parakeets, a...
Green Business: Hope or Hoax?: Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
Plant, Christopher, Plant, Judith
Book
1991
Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
Last Stand: A Riveting Expose of Environmental Pillage and a Lone Journalist's Struggle to Keep Faith
Manning, Richard
Book
1992
The author describes his confrontation with big business, examining the clash between nature and consumer society.
Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
Heath, Joseph; Potter, Adnrew
Book
2004
Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the cap...
This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Capture of Childhood
Beder, Sharon
Book
2009
Analyses how people and planet are being systematically subordinated to profit.
Turning Children Into Consumers
Beder, Sharon
Article
2009
Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into life...

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Centre for Social Justice
The CSJ conducts research, educates and advocates to narrow the gap in income, wealth and power and enhance peace and human security. It does this by bringing together academics, labour unions, faith...
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Consumer Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to consumers and consumer issues in the Sources directory for the media.

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New Internationalist
Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.