The Transformation of Shopping: Department Stores, Social Change and Consumerism, 1830-1994
Explore the social and cultural history of department stores, changing consumer needs, workers’ rights, and societal shifts. Themes include:
- domestic life
- gender roles
- consumerism
- retail work and unionisation
- business practices
- fashion
- race and ethnicity
- class
Content includes primary sources such as company archives, advertisement scrapbooks, posters and photographs, as well as store catalogues, workplace newsletters, journals and ephemera.