MTU Cork Library Catalogue

Commodity culture and social class in Dublin 1850-1916 /

Rains, Stephanie.

Commodity culture and social class in Dublin 1850-1916 / Stephanie Rains. - Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2010. - xiv, 226 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Commodity culture in the 1850s : origins and opposition -- Commodity culture in the 1860s and 1870s : consolidation and expansion -- Commodity culture in the 1880s : the politicisation of consumption -- Commodity culture in the 1890s : spectacle, entertainment and orientalism -- Commodity culture after 1900 : empire and Labour politics -- Epilogue : Easter Week 1916.

Links the growth of the commodity culture to development of mass-produced goods, spread of urban rail and tram systems, and expansion of the middle class in Ireland between the Famine and the 1916 Rising. Charts changing conceptions of shopping as a social or political practice and experiences of Dublin shop workers.

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Consumer behavior--History--Ireland--Dublin--19th century.
Consumer behavior--History--Ireland--Dublin--20th century.
Consumption (Economics)--History--Ireland--Dublin--19th century.
Consumption (Economics)--History--Ireland--Dublin--20th century.


Dublin (Ireland)--Social conditions--19th century.
Dublin (Ireland)--Social conditions--20th century.

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