Where Stuff Comes From by HARVEY MOLOTCH

Where Stuff Comes From by HARVEY MOLOTCH??By: Harvey Molotch Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415944007, 0415944007 other ISBN: 9781135946340, 1135946345 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2003Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other middle-men influence what a thing can be and how it is made. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and political operation. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us. Additional ISBNs 9780415944007|9780203011638, 0415944007|0203011635, 9780415950428, 0415950422