ABSTRACT
First Published in 1990. This is a book about the meaning of our lives as consumers. It is about leisure, lifestyle, and markets in today’s consumer culture. In 1986 one measure of people’s use of time in Britain identified television watching as the major activity for both men and women outside paid employment and sleeping.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART ONE Trends in consumption and leisure
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PART TWO The visual media and consumption
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PART THREE Consumer culture(s) and the market—some case studies