Retail and Community

Business, Charity and the End of Empire
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local to the global, between the late-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.

Retail has never existed in a vacuum.

This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local to the global, between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.

Historians, sociologists, archivists and heritage professionals engage with current debates on the rise of modern business and the decline of the high street, class and credit, professionalisation in the voluntary sector, migration and the end of empire.

This book will be a key resource to better understand retail and community in an era defined by social change, shedding new light on the enduring centrality of community relationships to modern retailers.

Contributor: George Campbell Gosling (Edited by), Alix R. Green (Edited by), Grace Millar (Edited by), Nadia Awal (Contributions by), Jessica Field (Contributions by), Triona Fitton (Contributions by), Majorie Gehrhardt (Contributions by), Jenny Gilbert (Contributions by), Nick Gray (Contributions by), Harshad Keval (Contributions by), Ruth MacDonald (Contributions by), Ian Mitchell (Contributions by), Massimiliano Papini (Contributions by)

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