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Selling Out or Buying In?: Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985

Selling Out or Buying In?: Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985

Dawson, Michael

Paperback

EconomicsCanadian HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1487521863
ISBN13: 9781487521868
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: May 13 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today's consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sundays. Since that decade, however, British Columbians, and Canadians generally, have made significant strides in gaining greater and easier access to consumer goods.

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