This bibliography lists studies on consumption in the social sciences and humanities. It is maintained by the Cultures of Consumption research programme. The bibliography incorporates Don Slater's original bibliography (date to be advised) and has added recent books and articles. With many thanks to Don for his assistance. The bibliography can be searched by author, title, or date. There are currently c.2000 items. To add new references to this list, please contact the programme office.

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Abercrombie, N., S. Hill, et al. (1986) Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism, London: Allen & Unwin.

Abrams, M. (1959) The Teenage Consumer, London: London Press Exchange.

Ackroyd, P. (1979) Dressing Up, London: Thames and Hudson.

Adkins Covert, T. (2003) ‘Consumption and Citizenship During the Second World War’, Journal of Consumer Culture 3 (3): 315-42.

Adburgham, A. (1979) Shopping in Style: London from the restoration to Edwardian elegance, London: Thames and Hudson.

Adburgham, A. (1981) Shops and Shopping, London: Barrie & Jenkins.

Adkins, L. (1995) Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and Labour Market, Buckingham: Open University Press.

Adler, R. P. (1980) The effect of advertising on children: review and recommendations, Lexington, MA

Adorno, T. (1941) ‘Veblen's attack on culture’, Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences 9: 389-413.

Adorno, T. (1975) ‘Culture Industry Reconsidered’, New German Critique 6 (1): 12-19.

Adorno, T. (1991) ‘Culture industry reconsidered’, in T. Adorno (ed.), The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture, London: Routledge.

Adorno, T., (ed.) (1991) The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture, London: Routledge.

Adorno, T. (1991) ‘On the fetish character of music and the regression of listening’, in T. Adorno (ed.), The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture, London: Routledge.

Adorno, T. and M. Horkheimer (1979) ‘The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’, in T. Adorno and M. Horkheimer (eds.), Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verso.

Adorno, T. and M. Horkheimer (1979) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verso.

Adshead, S. A. M. (1997) Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800: The Rise of Consumerism, Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Aglietta, M. (1979 {1976}) A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience, London: Verso.

Agnew, J. (1986) Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750, New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Agnew, J.-C. (1993) ‘Coming up for air: consumer culture in historical perspective’, in J. Brewer and R. Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods, New York: Routledge: 19-39.

Ahuvia, A. C. and N. Y. Wong (2002) ‘Personality and Values Based Materialism: Their Relationship and Origins’, Journal of Consumer Psychology 12 (4): 389-402.

Albert, E. (1984) ‘Equipment as a feature of social control in the sport of bicycle racing’, in N. Theberge and P. Donnelly (eds.), Sport and the Sociological Imagination, Fort Worth, Tex: Texas Christian University Press.

Aldridge, A. (1994) ‘The construction of rational consumption in Which? Magazine: the more blobs the better?’, Sociology 28 (4): 899-912.

Aldridge, A. (1997) ‘Engaging with promotional culture: organised consumerism and personal financial services industry’, Sociology 31 (3): 389-408.

Alexander, D. (1970) Retailing in England During the Industrial Revolution, London: Athlone Press.

Alfino, M., J. Caputo, et al., (eds.) (1998) McDonaldization Revisited: Critical Essays on Consumer Culture. London: Praeger.

Allen, G. and G. Crow, (eds.) (1989) Home and Family, London: Macmillan.

Allen, J. S. (1983) The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Culture Reform, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Allen, J. T. (1980) ‘The film viewer as consumer’, Quarterly Review of Film Studies 5 (4): 481-99.

Almond, K. (1988) ‘Public image versus private self: the tragedy of camp dressing’, in J. Ash and L. Wright (eds.), Components of Dress: design, manufacturing and image- making in the fashion industry, London: Routledge.

Alt, J. D. (1977) Leisure, Labor and Consumption: a critical sociology of reification, Ann Arbor: Michigan University Microfilms.

Altick, R. D. (1978) The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions, 1600-1862, Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press.

Altvater, E. (1993) The Future of the Market: An Essay on the Regulation of Money and Nature after the Collapse of 'Actually Existing Socialism', London: Verso.

Amin, A. and N. Thrift (1997) ‘Globalization, socio-economics, territoriality’, in R. Lee and J. Wills (eds.), Geographies of Economies, London: Arnold.

Amirou, R. (1988) ‘Sociability/Sociality’, Current Sociology 36: 115-20.

Anderson, M. H. (1981) ‘China's great leap' toward Madison Avenue’, Journal of Communications 31 (1): 10-22.

Anderson, R., J. Hughes, et al. (1987) ‘Executive problem finding’, Social Psychology Quarterly 50 (2): 143-159.

Anderson, S. C. and B. H. Tabb, (eds.) (2002) Water, Leisure and Culture: European Historical Perspectives, Oxford: Berg.

Andrews, W. D. and D. C. Andrews (1974) ‘Technology and the Housewife in Nineteenth-Century America’, Women’s Studies, 2: 309-28.

Andrews, M. and M. M. Talbot, (eds.) (2000) All the World and her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture, London and New York: Cassell.

Antonides, G. and W. F. van Raaij (1998) Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective, Chichester: J. Wiley.

Appadurai, A. (1986) (ed.) The Social Life of Things: Commodities in cultural perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Appadurai, A. (1990) ‘Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy’, Theory, Culture and Society 7: 295-310.

Appleby, J. (1976) ‘Ideology and theory: the tension between political and economic liberalism in seventeenth century England’, American Historical Review lxxxi: 499-515.

Appleby, J. (1984) Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s, New York and London: New YorkUniversity Press.

Appleby, J. (1993) ‘Consumption in early modern social thought’, in J. Brewer and R. Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods, New York and London: Routledge: 162-73.

Aran, G. (1974) ‘Parachuting’, American Journal of Sociology 80.

Arendt, H. (1958) The Human Condition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Aries, P. (1973) Centuries of Childhood, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Armstrong, L. (1993) Working Girls, Vogue:October.

Arnould, E. and R. Wilk (1984) ‘Why do the natives wear Adidas?’, Advances in Consumer Research 11: 748-52.

Arnould, E., L. Price and G. Zinkhan, (eds.) (2002) Consumers, New York: McGraw-Hill.

Arvidsson, A. (2001) ‘From Counterculture to Consumer Culture: Vespa and the Italian Youth Market, 1958-78’, Journal of Consumer Culture 1 (1): 47-71.

Arvidsson, A. (2003) Marketing Modernity: Italian Advertising from Fascism to Postmodernism, London and New York: Routledge.

Ash, J. (1989) ‘The Business of Couture’, in A. McRobbie (ed.), Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses: An Anthology of Fashion and Music, London: Macmillan.

Ash, J. and E. Wilson, (eds.) (1992) Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader, London: Pandora Press.

Ash, J. and L. Wright, (eds.) (1988) Components of dress design, manufacturing, and image-making in the fashion industry, London: Routledge.

Ashton, J. (1885) Old Times, New York.

Ashworth, W. J. (2003) Customs and Excise: Trade, Production and Consumption in England 1640-1845, Oxford: OUP.

Aspers, P. (2001) Markets in Fashion, Stockholm: CityUniversity Press.

Assadi, D. (2003) ‘Do Religions Influence Consumer Behaviour: Confronting Religious Rules and Marketing Concepts’, Cahiers du CEREN 5(2): 2-13.

Attfield, J. (2000) Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Practice, Oxford: Berg.

Attwood, F. (2005) ‘Inside Out: Men on the Home Front’, Journal of Consumer Culture 5 (1): 87-108.

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Baethge, M. (1985) ‘Individualization as hope and disaster: contradictions and paradoxes in Western societies’, International Social Science Journal 37(4): 441-54.

Bagguley, P. (1991) ‘Post-Fordism and Enterprise Culture’, in R. Keat and N. Abercrombie (eds.), Enterprise Culture, London: Routledge.

Bagguley, P., J. Mark-Lawson, et al. (1990) Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender, London: Sage.

Bailey, P. (1978) Leisure and Class in Victorian Britain: Rational Recreation and the Contest for Control, 1830-1885, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Bailey, P. (1998) Popular Culture and Performance in the VictorianCity, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Bailey, R. (1992) ‘Clothes encounters of the gynaecological kind: medical mandates and maternity modes in the US 1859-1990’, in R. Barnes and J. Eicher (eds.), Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning, Oxford: Berg.

Bakhtin, M. (1984) Rabelais and his World, Indiana: IndianaUniversity Press.

Bakker, G. (2003) ‘Building Knowledge about the Consumer: The Emergence of Market Research in the Motion Picture Industry’, Business History 45 (1): 101-127.

Baldwin, F. E. (1926) Sumptuary Legislation and Personal Regulation in England, Baltimore: John Hopkins Press.

Baltes, P. B. and M. M. Baltes, (eds.) (1990) Successful Aging: Perspectives from the Behavioral Sciences. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Banerjee, B. and D. Miller (2003) The Sari, Oxford and New York: Berg.

Banner, L. (1983) American Beauty, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Baran, P. A. and P. M. Sweezy (1977 {1966}) Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Baranowski, S. and E. Furlough, (eds.) (2001) Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture and Identity in Modern Europe and North America, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Barber, B. R. (1995) Jihad vs. McWorld, New York: Random House.

Barber, C. L. (1959) Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom, Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press.

Barbrook, R. (1990) ‘Mistranslations: Lipietz in London and Paris’, Science as Culture 8.

Barlow, M. and T. Clarke (2002) Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water, London: Earthscan.

Barnard, M. (1996) Fashion as Communication, London: Routledge.

Barnes, C. (1988) Fashion Illustration, London: MacDonald and Co.

Barnes, R. and E. J. B., (eds.) (1992) Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning. Oxford: Berg.

Barnouw, E. (1978) The Sponsor, New York: OxfordUniversity Press.

Barrows, S. (1981) Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-Century France, New Haven: YaleUniversity Press.

Bartels, R. (1976) The History of Marketing Thought, Columbus, Ohio: Grid.

Barthel, D. (1988) Putting on Appearances: gender and advertising, Athens, Georgia: Georgia University Press.

Barthel, D. (1989) ‘Modernism and Marketing: The Chocolate Box Revisited’, Theory, Culture and Society 6 (3).

Barthes, R. (1977) Elements of Semiology, New York: Hill and Wang.

Barthes, R. (1977) Image-Music-Text, London: Fontana.

Barthes, R. (1985) The Fashion System, London: Cape.

Barthes, R. (1986) Mythologies, London: Paladin.

Bartos, R. (1982) The Moving Target: what every marketer should know about women, New York: Free Press.

Barvey, E. G. (1996) The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s, New York: OxfordUniversity Press.

Basinger, J. (1993) A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960, London: Chatto & Windus.

Bataille, G. (1988) The Accursed Share, New York: Zone.

Bathrick, S. K. (1990) ‘The female colossus: the body as facade and threshold’, in J. Gaines and C. Herzog (eds.), Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body, London: Routledge.

Baudet, H. (1974) Innovation and Consumer Demand, Groningen: StateUniversity of Groningen.

Baudet, H. and H. van der Meulen (1982) Consumer Behaviour and Economic Growth in the Modern Economy, London: Croom Helm.

Baudrillard, J. (1968) Le Systeme des Objets: La Consommation des Signes, Paris: Denoel/Gonthier.

Baudrillard, J. (1975) The Mirror of Production, St Louis: Telos.

Baudrillard, J. (1981) For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, St Louis, MO: Telos.

Baudrillard, J. (1983) Simulations, New York: Semiotext(e).

Baudrillard, J. (1990) Revenge of the Crystal: Selected writings on the modern object and its destiny, London: Pluto Press.

Baudrillard, J. (1998 {1970}) The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures, London: Sage.

Bauman, Z. (1983) ‘Industrialism, Consumerism and Power’, Theory, Culture and Society 1 (3).

Bauman, Z. (1988) Freedom, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Bauman, Z. (1993) Postmodern Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell.

Bauman, Z. (1998) Work, Consumerism and the New Poor, Buckingham: Open University Press.

Bauman, Z. (2001) ‘Consuming Life’, Journal of Consumer Culture 1 (1): 9-29.

Bausinger, H. (1984) ‘Media, technology and everyday life’, Media, Culture and Society 6 (4).

Bayley, S. (1986) Sex, Drink and Fast Cars: The creation and consumption of images, London: Faber.

Bayley, S., (ed.) (1989) Commerce and Culture: Penshurst Press.

Baylis, J. and S. Smith, (eds.) (2005) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations,Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.

Beardsworth, A. and T. Keil (1997) Sociology on the Menu: an Invitation to the Study of Food and Society, London: Routledge.

Beauchamp, C. (2002) ‘Getting Your Money's Worth: American Models for the Remaking of the Consumer Interest in Britain, 1930s -1960s’, in M. Bevin and F. Trentmann (eds.), Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 127-50.

Beaton, C. (1954) The Glass of Fashion, Constable.

Beaudoin, T. (2004) Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are With What We Buy, Lantham, MD: Sheed and Ward.

Becker, G. S. (1996) Accounting for Tastes, Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press.

Beechey, V. and T. Perkins (1986) A Matter of Hours, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Belk, R. (1985) ‘Materialism: Trait Aspects of Living in the Material World’, Journal of Consumer Research 12 (3): 265-280.

Belk, R. (1995) Collecting in a Consumer Society, London: Routledge.

Belk, R. W. (1988) ‘Possessions and the extended self’, Journal of Consumer Research 15.

Belk, R. W. (2000) ‘Materialism and the Modern U.S. Christmas’, Advertising and Society Review 1(1): 75-104.

Belk RW, M. Wallendorf and JF Sherry, jr. (1989) ‘The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior: Theodicy on the Odyssey’, Journal of Consumer Culture 16: 1-38.

Bell, D. (1960) The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, New York: Free Press.

Bell, D. (1976) The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, New York: Basic Books.

Bell, D. (1979) The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, London: Heinemann.

Bell, D. and G. Valentine (1997) Consuming Geographies: We are Where We Eat, London: Routledge.

Bell, Q. (1976) On Human Finery, London: Hogarth Press.

Bell-Metereau, R. (1985) Hollywood Androgyny, New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press.

Bendict, B., (ed.) (1983) The Anthropology of World Fairs, London: Scolar Press.

Benjamin, W. (1977) Illuminations, London: Fontana.

Benjamin, W. (1979) One-Way Street, London: Verso.

Benjamin, W. (1989) Charles Baudelaire: A lyric poet in the era of high capitalism, London: Verso.

Bennet, T. (1988) ‘The exhibitionary complex’, New Formations 4: 73-103.

Bensman, J. and R. Lilienfeld (1991) Craft and Consciousness: Occupational Technique and the Development of World Images, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Benson, J. (1994) The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880-1980, London: Longman.

Benson, J. and G. Shaw (1999) The Retailing Industry, London: I. B. Tauris.

Benson, J. and L. Ugolini, (eds.) (2003) A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing, London: I. B. Tauris.

Benson, S. P. (1986) Counter Culture: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Benstock, S. and S. Ferriss, (eds.) (1995) On Fashion, New Brunswick: RutgersUniversity Press.

Berg, M. (1985) The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820, London: Fontana.

Berg, M. (2005) Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.

Berg, M. and H. Clifford, (eds.) (1999) Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850, Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press.

Berg, M. and E. Eger, (eds.) (2003) Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Berghoff, H., (ed.) (1999) Konsumpolitik: Die Regulierung des Privaten Verbrauchs im 20. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Bergler, E. (1953) Fashion and the Unconscious, New York: Robert Brunner.

Berk, R. and S. F. Berk (1979) Labour and Leisure at Home, London: Sage.

Berman, M. (1970) The Politics of Authenticity, New York: Atheneum.

Bermingham, A. and J. Brewer, (eds.) (1995) The Consumption of Culture 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text, London: Routledge.

Bernstein, J. M. (1991) ‘Introduction’, in T. Adorno (ed.), The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture, London: Routledge.

Bernstein, J. M. (1994) Recovering Ethical Life: Jurgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory, London: Routledge.

Berry, C. J. (1994) The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Berry, H. (2002) ‘Polite Consumption: Shopping in Eighteenth-Century England’, Transactions of the RHS, 12: 375-94.

Berthoud, R. and Iacovou, M. (2004) Social Europe: Living Standards and Welfare States, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Betts, P. (2003) ‘Remembrance of Things Past: Nostalgia in West and East Germany, 1980-2000’, in P. Betts and G. Eghigian (eds.), Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History, Stanford, CA: StanfordUniversity Press. 178-208.

Betts, P. and G. Eghigian, (eds.) (2003) Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History, Stanford, CA: StanfordUniversity Press.

Betz, H.-G. (1992) ‘Postmodernism and the new middle-class’, Theory, Culture and Society 9 (2).

Bevir, M. and F. Trenntmann, (eds.) (2004) Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.

Bianchi, M., (ed.) (1998) The Active Consumer: Novelty and Surprise in Consumer Choice: Routledge.

Binkley, S. (2003) ‘The Seers of Menlo Park: The Discourse of Heroic Consumption in the 'Whole Earth Catalog'’, Journal of Consumer Culture 3 (3): 283-313.

Birchall, J. (1999) ‘Empowering Consumers Through Co-operatives’, in J. Quinn (ed.), Ethics and Empowerment, London: Macmillan.

Birchall, J. (2002) ‘Some Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Attempted Takeover of a Consumer Co-operative’, Annals of Public and Co-operative Economics 71 (1): 29-54.

Bird, J., B. Curtis, et al., (eds.) (1993) Mapping the Future: Local Cultures, Global Change. London: Routledge.

Birken, L. (1988) Consuming Desire: Sexual Science and the Emergence of a Culture of Abundance, 1871-1914, Ithaca and London: CornellUniversity Press.

Bishop, J. and P. Hodgett (1986) Organizing Around Enthusiasms: Mutual Aid in Leisure, London: Comedia.

Bishop, R. and L. S. Robinson (1998) Night market: sexual cultures and the Thai economic miracle, New York: Routledge.

Black, C. (1983 {1915}) Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council, London: Virago.

Black, H. (1961) Buy Now, Pay Later, New York: Morrow.

Black, L. 'Free Choice Lies at the Core of Our Economic System': Comparing Post-War British and American Consumer Organizations.

Black, L. Which?craft in Post-War Britain: The Consumers' Association and the Politics of Affluence.

Black, L. (2003) The Political Culture of the Left in Affluent Britain, 1951-64: Old Labour, New Britain?, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Blackburn, P., K. Green, et al. (1982) ‘Science and Technology in Restructuring’, Capital and Class 18 (Winter).

Blackman, J. ‘The Development of the Retail Grocery Trade in the Nineteenth Century’, Business History 9 (2): 110-17.

Blackman, J. ‘The Food Supply of an IndustrialTown: A Study of Sheffield's Public Markets, 1780-1900’, Business History 5 (2): 83-97.

Blackman, J. (1966) ‘Changing Marketing Methods and Food Consumption’, in T. C. Barker, J. C. McKenzie and J. Yudin (eds.), Our Changing Fare, London: Macgibbon & Kee.

Bland, J. (1990) The Gender Paradox: A Transvestite's View of Transvestism, Derby, The Derby TV/TS Group.

Blass, B. (1997) Vogue (US edition): 210.

Blaszczyk, R. L. (2000) Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning, Baltimore, MD and London: JohnHopkinsUniversity Press.

Bliss, P. (1904) The Amateur Spirit, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press.

Bloch, P., H, N. M. Ridgway, et al. (1989) ‘Extending the concept of shopping: an investigation of browsing activity’, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 17(1): 13-21.

Block, F. (1991) Postindustrial Possibilities, Berkeley and London: University of California Press.