Throwaways
Work Culture and Consumer Education

Evan Watkins (Author)

9780804722506

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 1994

232 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

This innovative approach to consumer culture places less emphasis on ideological representations and resistances to ideology than on the educative powers of mass culture and the way that social position is determined through the politics of consumer culture. Thus the wide-ranging material studied includes such 'odd' and peripheral fields as car maintenance literature, and more familiar forms, such as television programming.