Legislative Foundations of American Consumer Society: Regulation, Deregulation and Their Impacts from the 1930s to Today

by Bob Sullivan

The current literature on consumerism is diverse, scattered, and unsystematic. This book remedies this by identifying the beginning of mass consumer society in the United States, starting with the New Deal. The New Deal framework of guaranteeing new home purchases by means of low down-payment, fixed-rate home mortgages lasted until the 1970s, at which time the legal framework unraveled due to a sustained attack on New Deal racism. Despite this,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476685886
• ISBN13: 9781476685885
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"