Paradoxes of modernist consumption - Reading fashions

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 351-364

  Dolfsma, Wilfred ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumption; Fashion; Institutions; Socio cultural values

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344282688     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253954     Document Type: Review

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