Consuming Germany in the Cold War : consumption and national identity in East and West Germany, 1949-1989, an introduction / David F. Crew -- "A world in miniature" : the Leipzig Trade Fairs in the 1950s and East German consumer citizenship / Katharine Pence -- On the seam between socialism and...

The emergence of contemporary consumerism -- The consumer as chooser -- The consumer as communicator -- The consumer as explorer -- The consumer as identity-seeker -- The consumer as hedonist -- The consumer as victim -- The consumer as rebel -- The consumer as activist -- The consumer as...

'The Unmanageable Consumer has long been one of my favorite books in the sociology of consumption. This long overdue third edition has updated and revised the basic argument in many ways. Most importantly, it now offers a new chapter on the consumer as worker or, more generally, the prosumer....