Chicago, 182, 233, 240, 243
Chinoy, Eli, 136–137, 140, 142–147
Civil War, 130, 132, 134
Cohen, G. A., 60
Cohen, Lizabeth, 38, 67, 70, 74, 92, 133, 207
Commerce Department, 71, 161–162, 164
Communitarians, 62
Congress, 130, 191, 202, 203
Conspicuous consumption, 13, 37–39, 144–145
Consumer durables revolution, 7, 33, 43, 52, 56, 69, 83, 92; and interwar spending patterns, 71–73
Consumer product testing, 150–151, 153, 167, 170, 180, 197–218
Consumer Reports, 198, 201, 205–213
Consumer Research Bulletin, 183
Consumers Advisory Board, 164
Consumers’ Research, 167, 183, 198, 199, 204, 209
Consumers Union, 167, 198, 204–210, 215, 232, 249
Cook, Rosalind, 199
Corporatism, 77, 131, 208, 229, 260
Costa, Dora, 6, 27, 54–56, 58, 60, 63, 148; and women’s labor force participation, 51
Cowan, Ruth, 52, 75
Credit cards, 69, 235
Customs, 80, 81, 124, 128, 129, 219, 266
Cutler, Jonathan, 132
Death dates, 223, 226, 228, 230, 235, 243, 251–256
Deaton, Angus, 15, 18, 19, 65, 98, 110
de Certeau, Michel, 39
DeLong, Bradford, 45
Department of Agriculture, 163, 169
Detroit, 175, 176, 233, 234, 255, 257
De Vries, Jan, 105
Disposable products, 119–122
Domestic appliances, 52, 74–75
Domestic labor, 52, 75, 77–78, 122
Dru-Stanley, Amy, 128–129
Earth Day, 250
Easterlin, Richard, 15, 17–18
Education, 110, 155, 216
Endowment efect, 105, 106, 107, 120
Environmentalism, 251, 253
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 251
Erdman Act, 174
Esping-Andersen, Gosta, 76, 102–105
European Union, 77–78, 103
Eurostat, 77
Fair Labor Standards Act, 50, 59
Family wage, 171
Federal Department of Agriculture (FDA), 163, 169
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 224
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 162, 163, 194, 247, 249
Feudalism, 81
Fogel, Robert, 47
Foner, Eric, 57, 60, 128
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 219
Ford, Henry, 167, 171
Fordism, 47, 84–85, 89, 131, 157, 158; and the working class norm of consumption, 23–26; and moral economy, 91, 252, 258–260
Ford’s five dollar day, 171, 229
France, 76, 77
Frankfurt School, 5, 85, 156
Frederick, Christine, 227, 228
Free labor, 115, 128
Friedman, Milton, 65
Frigidaire, 238, 240
Galbraith, J. K., 220, 226, 239
Gallup, 18, 19, 20
Garon, Sheldon, 72, 103
Gender, 118–119, 175, 207–208
General Electric, 199, 223
Germany, 77, 125
Gherardi, Bernard, 159
Gillette, 239
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