Consumer activists : they made a difference : a history of consumer action related by leaders in the consumer movement / National Consumers Committee for Research and Education

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Author

National Consumers Committee for Research and Education (U.S.)

Consumers Union Foundation

Contents

Introduction / Caroline F. Ware -- The roots of consumer cooperatives in the U.S. / Erma Angevine -- Growth of cooperatives : the Cooperative League of USA, cooperatives in housing and in international relief / Wallace J. Campbell -- Development of cooperative federations : housing, health, funeral and memorial societies / Jerry Voorhis -- The triumph of rural electric cooperatives / Clyde T. Ellis -- Consumers Union's contribution to the consumer movement / Colston E. Warne -- Development of standard setting : government and voluntary / Erma Angevine -- Weights and measures / Leland Gordon -- Food standards and grades / Sarah H. Newman -- Consumer participation in standards setting / Rebecca Cohen -- The food and drug administration and the consumer / Wallace F. Janssen -- Consumer participation at the federal level / Caroline F. Ware with Gardiner C. Means and Thomas C. Blaisdell -- Consumer representation in the White House / Esther Peterson -- Consumer representation at the state level : the pioneer, New York / Persia Campell -- Consumer representation at the state level : California / Helen Ewing Nelson

Consumer participation in business / Esther Peterson -- The development of consumer education in the classroom / Erma Angevine -- The development of a consumer economist / Leland Gordon -- The role of home economics in the consumer movement / Marjorie East -- Consumer education : an activist approach / Sandra L. Willett -- Early consumer activism in Washington, D.C. / Sarah H. Newman -- The Nader Network for consumer impact / Colston E. Warne -- The consumer voice : lobbying in the consumer interest / Caroline F. Ware -- Lobbying for the fair packaging and labeling act / Sarah H. Newman -- Lobbying and Consumer Federation of America / Erma Angevine -- The first national consumer organization : the National Consumers League / Mary Dublin Keyserling -- The National Consumers League : new directions 1940-1980 / Erma Angevine with Sarah Newman

1982

©1982

Type

Books

History

Physical description

365 pages ; 28 cm

Place

United States

Title

History of consumer action related by leaders in the consumer movement

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Consumer protection--History

Consumer cooperatives--History

Consumers

Record ID

siris_sil_1071396

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