(Read download) The Commodification of Childhood: The Childrenrsquo;s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer
♛ Daniel Thomas Cook ♛
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Cook's TourBy Ian GordonMarketing to children is tricky business. Just what is a child? Are children naturally innocent? And is it appropriate to direct advertising to children as if they are capable of making consumption decisions? Daniel Thomas Cook's wonderful book guides us through many of these issues as they applied to America in the twentieth century. He discusses competing notions of childhood and motherhood and how advertisers and merchldquo;Blending the sociologistrsquo;s theoretical rigor with the historianrsquo;s attention to detail and change, Daniel Thomas Cook offers us a striking and original explanation of how twentieth-century notions of childhood together with new marketing practices led to the modern autonomous child.In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of childrenrsquo;s consumer culturemdash;and the commodification of childhood itselfmdash;by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the childrenrsquo;s clothing industry. Cook describes how in the early twentieth century merchants, manufacturers, and advertisers of childrenrsquo;s clothing began to aim commercial messages at the child rather than the mother. Cook situates this fundamental shift in perspective with... [PDF.uo34] The Commodification of Childhood: The Childrenrsquo;s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer Rating: 3.59 (630 Votes)
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