1958, the year of consumption and chemicals -- Plastics and the victory of functionalist design, 1945-1962 -- Plastics and the socialist apartment of the future -- Plastic consumer goods in the everyday world of East Germany, 1958-1969 -- Centralization : plastics, design, and total control,...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Archival Sources -- Prologue The Good Life and the Yugoslav Dream -- Introduction Getting It -- 1 Living It -- 2 Making It -- 3 Selling It -- 4 Fearing It -- 5 Taming It -- 6 Fighting It -- 7 Loving It -- 8 Needing It -- Epilogue -- Selected...

Between pink Hollywood and the black wave -- A change in rhythm -- Modernism and the avant-garde in the struggle for socialism -- Life in the American style -- Conclusion. The American dream the Yugoslav way?

This studyexamines the growing evidencepointing toward growth in self-employment in Mexican-American communities, dueto a number of social and cultural factors. The authors focus on the ethnicstrategies employed by this segment of ethnic entrepreneurs, a combination ofmicro and macro level...

'Social opulence and private restraint' is a study of the place of the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins, through 'New Times' Marxism, to consumer-focused New Labourism and political economies critical of consumerism...