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This Little Kiddy Went to Market - The Corporate Capture of Childhood (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,846
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This Little Kiddy Went to Market - The Corporate Capture of Childhood (Hardcover): Sharon Beder, Wendy Varney, Richard Gosden

This Little Kiddy Went to Market - The Corporate Capture of Childhood (Hardcover)

Sharon Beder, Wendy Varney, Richard Gosden

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This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be under-aged hyperconsumers.Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign, transforming children's play into a commercial opportunity and taking advantage of childish anxieties.Beder investigates the corporate relations and ideals that infiltrate every aspect of our lives, especially through our public services. She presents an alarming picture of how a child's social development - through education, health care and nutrition - has become an ordered conveyor belt of consumerist conditioning. Focusing on education in particular, Beder explains how businesses are taking control of more and more aspects of schooling, not only for profit but to erode state schooling and promote business values. Similarly, she writes how children are taught from an early age that the pharmacy offers the solutions to all their ills, and how pharmaceuticals are only to happy to 'educate' them.

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Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2009
First published: May 2009
Authors: Sharon Beder • Wendy Varney • Richard Gosden
Dimensions: 230 x 150 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Library binding
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-2916-1
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Consumer issues
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Child welfare
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LSN: 0-7453-2916-0
Barcode: 9780745329161

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