Social opulence and private restraint : the consumer in British socialist thought since 1800 /
Noel Thompson.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A study of the place of the consumer and consumption in the political economy of British socialism, from its early-nineteenth-century origins to the modern Left, illustrating the multifaceted ideological challenge presented by the accommodation of the consumer within socialist political economy.