2015
DOI: 10.1108/jhrm-08-2014-0021
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Ethical shopping in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the significance and limitations of ethical shopping in Britain in the period between the 1880s and 1914 and, in particular, the use of white lists as a means of encouraging consumers only to buy goods produced in satisfactory working conditions. Design/methodology/approach – A brief survey of earlier examples of ethical shopping provides the context for a discussion of the published … Show more

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“…In terms of consumer sovereignty, the 9th May 1908 seminar had a lecture from a visiting speaker, Mr John Graham Brookes from the American Consumers League. Consumer leagues were groups championing ethical shopping and consumer sovereignty that emerged at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries in the USA and the UK (Mitchell, 2015). The visiting speaker “briefly explained the American Consumers League”, observing that “The nineteenth century was the century of the producer [and] the twentieth is the century of the consumer”, continuing that “After Mr Brookes speech several questions were asked and considered”, but tantalisingly no more detail is listed in the entry (Commerce Seminar minute book, 1908).…”
Section: Founding the Curriculum: Professor Sir William J Ashley (Tenure: 1902-1925)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In terms of consumer sovereignty, the 9th May 1908 seminar had a lecture from a visiting speaker, Mr John Graham Brookes from the American Consumers League. Consumer leagues were groups championing ethical shopping and consumer sovereignty that emerged at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries in the USA and the UK (Mitchell, 2015). The visiting speaker “briefly explained the American Consumers League”, observing that “The nineteenth century was the century of the producer [and] the twentieth is the century of the consumer”, continuing that “After Mr Brookes speech several questions were asked and considered”, but tantalisingly no more detail is listed in the entry (Commerce Seminar minute book, 1908).…”
Section: Founding the Curriculum: Professor Sir William J Ashley (Tenure: 1902-1925)mentioning
confidence: 99%