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The consumer movement is an effort to promote consumer protection through an organized social movement, which is in many places led by consumer organizations.It advocates for the rights of consumers, especially when those rights are actively breached by the actions of corporations, governments, and other organizations that provide products and services to consumers.
The scope is the history, activities, interests, legislation, and actors in the twentieth century consumer movement. [1] Focuses of the work include 40 articles each describing the consumer movement in a different country, various articles on specific actions undertaken by consumer activists, and descriptions of the interests of specific ...
One reviewer said that the book describes the consumer movement by describing what contemporary consumer organizations are doing as activism. [1]A reviewer for Kirkus Reviews said that the book describes "consumer group organization, the variety of interests that constitute the consumer movement, the definite objectives of consumer groups, the spread of services, testing agencies, committees ...
The consumer movement began to gather a following, pushing for increased rights and legal protection against malicious business practices. By the end of the 1950s, legal product liability had been established in which an aggrieved party need only prove injury by use of a product, rather than bearing the burden of proof of corporate negligence.
Historian Lawrence B. Glickman identifies the free produce movement of the late 1700s as the beginning of consumer activism in the United States. [7] Like members of the British abolitionist movement, free produce activists were consumers themselves, and under the idea that consumers share in the responsibility for the consequences of their purchases, boycotted goods produced with slave labor ...
The consumer movement is the social movement which refers to all actions and all entities within the marketplace which give consideration to the consumer. While the above definitions were becoming established, other people began using the term consumerism to mean "high levels of consumption". [3]
(with Malgorzata Mazurek) "Consumerism, Solidarity and communism: consumer protection and the consumer movement in Poland", Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 42, issue 2 (2007), pp. 315–343. "Social activism in an age of consumption: the organised consumer movement", Social History, vol. 32, issue 2 (2007), pp. 121–143.
The Consumentenbond was established in 1953. [1] As of 1997, it had 650,000 members and represented one out of nine Dutch families, which made it the consumer organization with the highest level of penetration in any nation. [1]