the making of Dutch consumer society
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bruhèze, Adri Albert de la > (ed.)
- Creator
- Oldenziel, Ruth > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Wit, Onno de
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- NED 4 2009
- Thesaurus
- technologie, consumenten, vrouwenorganisaties, bedrijven, huisvrouwen, historisch, Nederland, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The authors describe how twentieth-century technologies became socially embedded through the activities and interactions of new institutions and organizations, including state agencies, consumer and producer associations, corporate organizations, and research institutes. They argue that these institutional actors simultaneously imaged, represented, projected, negotiated and produced new products, consumer practices, and ideas about the consumer. The room for negotiation these actors possessed in the mediated design of technology, its use, and its users depended on social institutions and their power relations, according to the contributors. Contains amongst others the following articles: Speaking for consumers, standing up as citizens: the politics of Dutch women's organizations and the shaping of technology, 1880-1980 / by Liesbeth Bervoets and Ruth Oldenziel: The 'family laboratory': the contested kitchen and the making of the modern housewife / by Anneke van Otterloo and Marja Berendsen.