Research Catalog

Title

Children, consumerism, and the common good / Mary M. Doyle Roche.

Author

Roche, Mary M. Doyle.

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2009.

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Details

Description

viii, 149 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good explores the impact of consumer culture on the lives of children in the United States and globally, focusing on two phenomena: advertising to children and child labor. Christian communities have a critical role to ploy in securing the well-being of children and challenging the cultural trends that undermine that well-being. Exploring themes in the tradition of Catholic social teaching, Mary M. Doyle Roche argues that children have a claim on the fruits of our common life and should participate in that life according to their age and ability. Roche utilizes the principle of the common good to analyze children's participation in the market and suggests opportunities for resistance and transformation in the context of the consumerism that pervades everyday life."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Advertising and children
• Child labor

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Children in a peaceable kingdom -- 1. Reading the signs of the times : consumer culture and the commercialization of childhood -- 2. Children's rights and family values -- 3. Children and the common good -- 4. A model of resistance and transformation : the Cristo Rey story -- Conclusion. Keeping Christmas well.

ISBN

• 9780739129470 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739129473 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739141922 (electronic)
• 0739141929 (electronic)

LCCN

2009022776

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries