Strasser, Susan 1948-

Overview

Works:	28 works in 155 publications in 6 languages and 7,729 library holdings
Genres:	History Documentary television programs Nonfiction television programs Conference papers and proceedings Pictorial works Documentary films Exhibition catalogs
Roles:	Author, Editor, Contributor, Other
Classifications:	TX23, 640.973

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Susan Strasser

Never done : a history of American housework by Susan Strasser( Book )

17 editions published between 1981 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Never Done is the first history of American housework. Beginning with a description of household chores of the nineteenth century--cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with wash boilers and flatirons, endless water hauling and fire tending--Susan Strasser demonstrates how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Lightening some tasks and eliminating the need for others, new commercial processes inexorably altered women's daily lives and relationships--with each other and with the people they served. In this lively and authoritative book, Strasser weaves together the history of material advances and discussions of domestic service, "women's separate sphere" and the impact of advertising, home economics and women's entry into the workforce. Hailed as pathbreaking when originally published, Never Done remains an eye-opening examination of daily life in the American past

Satisfaction guaranteed : the making of the American mass market by Susan Strasser( Book )

26 editions published between 1989 and 2009 in English and held by 1,426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of modern marketing, the dynamic processes of advertising, production, and sales that transformed turn-of-the century America

Waste and want : a social history of trash by Susan Strasser( Book )

18 editions published between 1999 and 2013 in English and held by 1,334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep."--Jacket

Getting and spending : European and American consumer societies in the twentieth century( Book )

19 editions published between 1998 and 2010 in English and Italian and held by 574 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Yet their commonalities suggest recent directions in the scholarship, raising such themes as consumption and democracy; the development of a global economy; the role of the state; the centrality of consumption to Cold War politics; the importance of the Second World War as a historical divide; the language of consumption; the contexts of locality, race, ethnicity, gender, and class; and the environmental consequences of twentieth-century consumer society. Implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, they explore the role of the historian as social, political, and moral critic

Affluenza( Visual )

3 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in English and held by 538 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A fascinating look at one of the greatest social maladies of our time: overconsumption and materialism. Hosted by National Public Radio's Scott Simon, the program explores both the comical and sobering aspects of our consumerism and its enormous impact on families, communities and the environment. With the help of historians and archival film, Affluenza reveals the forces that have dramatically transformed us from a nation that prizes thriftiness - with strong beliefs in 'plain living and high thinking' - into the ultimate consumer society"--Container

Social justice feminists in the United States and Germany : a dialogue in documents, 1885-1933( Book )

8 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Commodifying everything : relationships of the market by Susan Strasser( Book )

11 editions published between 2003 and 2013 in English and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Commodification" refers most explicitly to the activities of turning things into commodities and of commercializing that which is not commercial in essence. The mass marketing of pets, the rise of the coffin industry, the conversion of preacher into salesmen and the globalization of Taleggio cheese are some of the surprising topics in this volume that show how friendship, death, spirituality and artisanship all have a price after being commodified. This collection of essays gives a perspective on creating consumer products and consumer identities when what's for sale goes well beyond the thing itself

Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction by Susan Strasser( Book )

12 editions published between 2010 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions

Washington, images of a state's heritage( Book )

3 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Who built America? : working people and the nation's economy, politics, culture, and society by Christopher Clark( Book )

2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 207 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on the original edition authored by Bruce Levine [and others] published in 1981

Wal-Mart l'entreprise-monde by Nelson Lichtenstein( Book )

2 editions published in 2009 in French and English and held by 54 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Soddisfazione garantita : la nascita del mercato di massa by Susan Strasser( Book )

2 editions published in 1999 in Italian and held by 32 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Waste and want : the other side of consumption by Susan Strasser( Book )

4 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Never done : the ideology and technology of household work, 1850-1930 by Susan Strasser( )

9 editions published between 1977 and 1981 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

race&sex: Eine Geschichte der Neuzeit 49 Schlüsseltexte aus vier Jahrhunderten neu gelesen( Book )

1 edition published in 2016 in German and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Who built america? : working people and the nation's economy, politics, culture, and society by Nelson Lichtenstein( Book )

5 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on the original edition authored by Joshua Freeman [and others] published in 1981

Yokubō o umidasu shakai : amerika tairyō shōhi shakai no seiritsushi by Susan Strasser( Book )

2 editions published in 2011 in Japanese and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reimagining the distaff toolkit by Susan Strasser( Book )

1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sŏnggonghan chep'um, sŏnggonghan mak'et'ing by Susan Strasser( Book )

2 editions published in 1991 in Korean and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide