Mail Order Retailing In Britain

Author : Richard Coopey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198296509
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mail Order Retailing in Britain written by Richard Coopey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces the rise of firms including Kay and Co., Grattan, Empire Stores and Littlewoods. It examines the ways in which these firms created and exploited social networks through the agency system and credit provision among the British working class. The book also traces the origins of internet-based home shopping in the UK"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Richard Coopey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191522686
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mail Order Retailing in Britain written by Richard Coopey and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in the late 19th century, Britain's mail order industry both exploited and generated social networks in building its businesses. The common foundation of the sector was the agency system; Sales were made through catalogues held by agents, ordinary people in families, neighbourhoods, pubs, clubs and workplaces. Through this agency system mail order firms in Britain were able to tap social networks both to build a customer base, but also to obtain vital information on creditworthiness. In this, the first comprehensive history of the British mail order industry, the authors combine business and social history to fully explain the features and workings of this industry. They show how British general mail order industry firms such as Kay and Co., Empire Stores, Littlewoods, and Grattan grew from a range of businesses as diverse as watch sales or football pools. A range of business innovations and strategies were developed throughout the twentieth century, including technological development and labour process rationalisation. Indeed, the sector was in the vanguard of many aspects of change from supply chain logistics to computerization. The social and gender profile of the home shopper also changed markedly as the industry developed. These changes are charted, from the male-dominated origins of the industry to the growing influence of women both within the firm and, more importantly, as the centre of the mail order market. The book also draws parallels and contrasts with the much more widely studied mail order industry of the United States. The final section of the book examines the rise of internet shopping and the new challenges and opportunities it provided for the mail order industry. Here the story is one of continuity and fracture as the established mail order companies struggle to adjust to a business environment which they had partly created, but which also rested on a new range of core competencies and technological and demographic change.

Author : Richard Coopey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191716638
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mail Order Retailing in Britain written by Richard Coopey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title highlights the ways in which firms create and exploit social networks through the agency system and credit provision among the British working class. It also traces the origins of internet-based home shopping in the UK - its links to, and divergence from, traditional mail order.

Author : Lydia Langer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317007778
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945 written by Lydia Langer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, structures, practices and the culture of retailing in most West European countries went through a period of rapid change. The post-war economic boom, the emergence of a mass consumer society, and the adaptation of innovations which already had been implemented in the USA during the interwar period, revolutionized the world of getting and spending. But the implementation of self-service and the supermarket, the spread of the department store and the mail order business were not only elements of a transatlantic catch up process of 'Americanization' of retailing. National patterns of the retail trade and specific cultures of consumption remained crucial, and long term processes of change, starting in the 1920s or 1930s, also had an impact on the transformation of retailing in post-war Europe. This volume presents a series of case-studies looking at transformations of retailing in several European countries, offering new insights into the structural preconditions of the emerging mass consumer societies and also into the consequences consumerism had on the practices of retailing.

Author : Penelope Francks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230367348
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Consumer written by Penelope Francks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the 'consumer revolution' in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the course of economic development.

Author : Corporate Intelligence Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Street Home Shopping written by Corporate Intelligence Group and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sean O'Connell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199263310
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Credit and Community written by Sean O'Connell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the history of consumer credit and debt in working class communities. Concentrates on forms of credit that were traditionally very dependent on personal relationships and social networks, it covers how community-based arrangements declined as more impersonal forms of borrowing emerged during the 20th century.

Author : Robert Elkington Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mail Order Retailing Pioneered in Chicago written by Robert Elkington Wood and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vivienne Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042275
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England written by Vivienne Richmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.

Author : Neil Wrigley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1444118757
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Retail written by Neil Wrigley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Retail captures contemporary debates on the geography of retailing and consumption spaces. It is constructed around a series of 'readings' from key works, and is designed to encourage readers to develop a sense of engagement with the rapidly evolving debates in this field. More than 60 edited readings are integrated into the text, providing a guided route map through the literature and into the study of the geographies of retailing and consumption. The volume also introduces readers to the exciting and interdisciplinary developments unfolding in the 'new retail geography', drawing on up-to-the-minute research material from areas ranging from anthropology to business studies, and tackling issues as diverse as retail internationalization and e-commerce. Reading Retail is unique in bringing together a huge range of perspectives on retailing and consumption spaces and will provide a key source text for students in this field.