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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 ...
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]
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.
World Consumer Rights Day is an annual occasion for celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement. Participants observe the day by promoting the basic rights of all consumers, demanding that those rights are respected and protected, and protesting about the market abuses and social injustices which undermine them. World ...
Your Money's Worth: A study in the waste of the consumer's dollar is a 1927 nonfiction book on consumerism written by Stuart Chase and Frederick J. Schlink.It is notable for becoming popular enough to initiate a consumer protection movement.
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 ...