"The luxurious appearance and handsome profits of American department stores from 1890 to 1940 masked a three-way struggle among saleswomen, managers, and customers for control of the selling floor. Counter Cultures explores the complex nature and contradictions of the conflict in an arena where class, gender, and the emerging culture of consumption all came together. Counter Cultures is a path-breaking and imaginative social history. Benson has made an original and sophisticated contribution to the study of the work process in the service sector. "-- Back cover.
Originally presented at a September 2001 symposium held at the U. of Nottingham, the 20 papers in this collection cover aspects of German and central European culture from the 1770s...
... 230 Goffman, Erving, 74, 111 Goldenweiser, Alexander, 34, 69 Goldman, Emma, 92 Goldstein, Michael J., 174 Gooch, G. P., 223 Goode, Erich, 112 Goode, William, 16 Goodman, Ellen, 78, 88, 302 Goodman, Felicitas D., 173 Goodman, Paul, ...
An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History Gina Misiroglu. of well-being and harmony, a calm euphoria and meditative state, and a revelation of the numinous. For many church members, ...
"This book examines how the many areas of anarchist activism formed counter-cultures around which anarchists assembled in order to effect change. By analysing the various anarchist counter-cultures, Thomas demonstrates that...
The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-cultures in America
Merry Gentlemen (And One Lady). New York: Atheneum, 1985. Buchloh, Benjamin, and Judith F. Rodenbeck. Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts—Events, Objects, Documents. New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery ...
In times of multiple instabilities and uncertainties, this volume argues, young people prefer to try to adjust to given circumstances than to adopt the behaviour of potential rebellious, adolescent role models, dissident counter-cultures or ...
Drawing on rich cross-cultural perspectives from Pakistan, Israel, Canada, the US and the UK, the authors challenge readers to envision new ways of thinking for education: ways which draw on imagination, the arts and the collective ...
In this book, Jessa Lingel offers an account of digital technology use that looks beyond Silicon Valley and college dropouts-turned-entrepreneurs.
This volume provides an essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of ’counterculture’ and a critical examination of the period and its heritage.