Middle class union : organizing the "consuming public" in post-World War I America / Mark W. Robbins.

Author: Robbins, Mark W. author.

ImprintAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]

Descriptionviii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction -- Politicizing consumption in the community: middle class consumer organizing during the Progressive era and World War I -- Becoming producers and avoiding the middleman: home garden and municipal market campaigns -- The "flying squadron" declares war on the profiteers: the high cost of living division and federally sponsored middle-class consumer organizing -- A nation in overalls: middle-class clothing boycotts -- Rent war! Middle-class tenant organizing -- Epilogue: toward a "middle class union".

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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