Working-Class Consumer Power

Marcel van der Linden

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Research by labor historians on the acquisition of power by the working class tends to focus on labor relations (acquisition of power in businesses) or on political relations (power through elections, with the government, and so on). This approach overlooks the third source of labor's power, which is based on patterns of consumption resulting from the collective use of purchasing power. This essay examines this source of power. Because the topic is a virtualterra incognita, I will merely discuss a few observations and some very provisional hypotheses that are not always well substantiated.

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