From barter systems of economic structures to centralised economies, human beings have introduced new dynamics for managing their day-to-day consumerist activities. Consumerist history reached its ...

How many slaves work for you? This is the implicit question behind awareness campaigns that link consumer behaviour to modern slavery, urging citizens to use their consumer power to demand an end to ...

What are the causes of the current wave of consumer unrest? What are the goals of consumer protest groups? How are they organized? Who supports them? In this article, the consumer movement of the ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Since at least 2010, we’ve seen significant changes in customer expectations, and these ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Journalist J.B. MacKinnon discussed his book "The Day the World Stops Shopping," specifically how consumerism shifted post World War II. Journalist J ...

Laurie Taylor explores the history of the modern, material world. Plus the middle-class bias in work-life balance research. Show more Consumerism: a history of our modern, material world and the ...

Ethical consumerism is a sphere of action where the contrasting values and behaviours of market and social purpose interact. As a hybrid phenomenon, it presents an analytic and empirical riddle.

Last Thanksgiving, we were left shaking our heads at the complete and utter loss of the actual meaning of the holiday season. Rather than spend the day with their friends and families, roughly 3,000 ...