"Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which...

"A higher education History primary source textbook that embraces an argument based model for teaching history. It is part of the Debating American History series, and covers mass consumer culture in the 1920s."