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- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Can we shop our way to a better world?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In this article Umair Mohammad summarizes arguments from the introduction and first chapter of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism. Mohammad argues that lifestyle change and 'ethical consumerism' are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, he says, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
- Design for the Real World
Human Ecology and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
While two-thirds of the world's population lives in poverty, valuable human and natural resources are used to produce: fur-covered toilet seats, electronic nail polish dryers, diapers for parakeets, and mink-oil fertilizer for "the plant that has everything." Papanek discusses why the things you buy are expensive, badly designed, unsafe, and often don't work. He proposes alternative ways of thinking and alternative designs for safe, inexpensive, and desperately needed products.
- The Design of Everyday Things
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
- The Illusion of Consumer Sovereignty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
I tend to see the issue as social, economic, and political. I simply refuse to blame us consumers.
- Wendy-Moore MacQueen, Author, Speaker and President of Mormac Brand Re-engineering
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sources welcomes Wendy Moore-MacQueen
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Wendy Moore-MacQueen, Author, Speaker and President of Mormac Brand Re-engineering.
- Thanks for (not) shopping!?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Mixed-messaging during North American holidays puts the responsibility back on consumers.
- University of Winnipeg
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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