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Raising consumers : children and the American mass market in the early twentieth century /

Jacobson, Lisa, 1962-

Raising consumers : children and the American mass market in the early twentieth century / Lisa Jacobson. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2004. - xii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Popular cultures, everyday lives .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-281) and index.

Ch. 1 : "Big Sales from Little Folks": The Development of Juvenile Advertising -- Ch. 2 : From Thrift Education to Consumer Training: Reforming the Child Spender -- Ch. 3 : Heroes of the New Consumer Age: Imagining Boy Consumers -- Ch. 4 : Athletic Girls and Beauty Queens: Imagining the Peer-Conscious Adolescent Consumers -- Ch. 5 : Revitalizing the American Home: Playrooms, Parenting, and the Middle-Class Child Consumer -- Ch. 6 : Radio Clubs and the Consolidation of Children's Consumer Culture During the Great Depression.

0231113889 (cloth : alk. paper)

2004045638


Child consumers--History--United States--20th century.
Market segmentation--History--United States--20th century.
Target marketing--History--United States--20th century.
Advertising and children--History--United States--20th century.

HF5415.33.U6 / J33 2004

339.4/7/0830973

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