Keeping up with the Dow Joneses : debt, prison, workfare / Vijay Prashad.
Keeping up with the Dow Joneses : debt, prison, workfare / Vijay Prashad.
Keeping up with the Dow Joneses : debt, prison, workfare / Vijay Prashad.
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Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, 2003.
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Date
2003.
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N305.56097/ 1
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English
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Physical content
xxvi, 214 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Respect -- America -- Debt -- Prison -- Workfare -- Movement.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, 2003.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
"Prashad argues that the advent of mass production and advertising has converted citizens into consumers whose desires are captured by the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses." Yet, as Prashad so persuasively demonstrates, "keeping up with the Joneses" is a trap: Americans have gone into massive consumer debt, with the poorest forty percent of the...
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Keeping up with the Dow Joneses : debt, prison, workfare / Vijay Prashad.
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Debt, prison, workfare.
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"First edition published as 'The American Scheme' by Three Essays Press in India"--Verso t.p.
"First appeared in a much briefer version ... in New Delhi (Summer 2002)"--verso t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N305.56097/ 1
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74Vv5zvrkqdl
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0896086895 (pbk.)
9780896086906
0896086909
9780896086890 (pbk.)
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305.560973
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991017693399702626
