Retail and Community Business, Charity and the End of Empire |
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| Contribution by:
| Awal, Nadia
Field, Jessica
Fitton, Triona
Gehrhardt, Majorie
Gilbert, Jenny
Gray, Nick
Keval, Harshad
MacDonald, Ruth
Mitchell, Ian
Papini, Massimiliano |
| Editor:
| Campbell Gosling, George
Green, Alix R.
Millar, Grace |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5292-3524-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2024 |
| Publisher: | Policy Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $185.00 |
Book Description:
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Retail has never existed in a vacuum.This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local and the global, between the late-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.Historians, sociologists, archivists and heritage professionals engage with current debates on the rise of modern business and the decline of the high street, class and credit,...
More DescriptionRetail has never existed in a vacuum.This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local and the global, between the late-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.Historians, sociologists, archivists and heritage professionals engage with current debates on the rise of modern business and the decline of the high street, class and credit, professionalisation in the voluntary sector, migration and the end of empire.This will be a key resource to better understand retail and community in an era defined by social change, shedding new light on the enduring centrality of community relationships to modern retailers.