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  • Regeneration through Misuse: Rugged Consumerism in Contemporary American Culture

    Creator:
    Malewitz, Raymond
    Abstract:
    This essay charts the emergence of “rugged consumers” in contemporary American culture: skilled laborers who confront the disappearance of manufacturing jobs during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and the accompanying sense of labor’s marginality in American society. Although they are alienated from sites of industrial productivity, rugged consumers...
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    illustrates this dis- tinction with a short passage from William James’s he Principles of Psychology in which