City Research Online

Abstract

Whilst public criticisms of an increasingly wasteful consumer society emerged already in late nineteenth Century, the specific concept of a “Throwaway Society” was first used in the early 1960s. This short communication sketches the passionate debate around planned obsolescence and oversaturated consumers and offers a short historical glimpse at a persistent, existential problem that still awaits effective solutions.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Consumer Policy. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-018-9371-6
Publisher Keywords:	Affluence, Planned obsolescence, Throwaway culture, Throwaway society, Waste Consumer culture
Departments:	Bayes Business School > Management
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

Export

Downloads