Advertising on trial : consumer activism and corporate public relations in the 1930s /

Stole, Inger L.

Advertising on trial : consumer activism and corporate public relations in the 1930s / Inger L. Stole. - xviii, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The history of communication . - History of communication. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rise of a corporate culture : early consumer response -- Advertising challenged : the creation of consumers' research and the rise of the 1930s consumer movement -- The drive for legislation to establish federal advertising regulation, 1933-1935 -- A consumer movement divided : the birth of Consumers Union Inc. -- Defining the "consumer agenda," the business community joins the Frey -- Legislative closure : the Wheeler-Lea Amendment -- Witch hunt, red baiting, and the end to the radical critique of advertising.

9780252030598 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252030591 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252072994 (paper : alk. paper) 0252072995 (paper : alk. paper)

2005017226


Advertising--History--United States
Corporations--Public relations--United States

HF5813.U6 / S77 2005

659.1097309043

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