The Transformation of Shopping: Department Stores, Social Change and Consumerism, 1830-1994

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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.

Resource Subject
Visual Arts and Photography
History and Biography
Australian History
Modern History (After 1450)
Art and Performance