Domestic Goods by Joy. Parr - August 1999: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years

This book is a beginning, a first attempt through a series of case studies to learn about the material, moral, and economic reasoning which governed Canadians' relationships to their domestic world of goods, By intention, the research questions were made specific to counterbalance the austere and aloof aspirations with which the practices of Canadian consumption have been cloaked, and products of Canadian design engineering have been dismissed. Appendices: Household equipped with major domestic applianced & Interviews and Letters; Notes; Index; 368 pages.