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© 2017 Princeton University Press, Princeton

© 2017 Princeton University Press, Princeton

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1 The Twenty-first- Century “Leisure” Class 1
  5. 2 Conspicuous Consumption in the Twenty-first Century 24
  6. 3 Ballet Slippers and Yale Tuition: Inconspicuous Consumption and the New Elites 46
  7. 4 Motherhood as Conspicuous Leisure in the Twenty-first Century 78
  8. 5 Conspicuous Production 110
  9. 6 Landscapes of Consumption 148
  10. 7 “To Get Rich Is Glorious”? The State of Consumption and Class in America 182
  11. Appendix 199
  12. Notes 221
  13. References 233
  14. Index 247
The Sum of Small Things
This chapter is in the book The Sum of Small Things
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400884698-010

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1 The Twenty-first- Century “Leisure” Class 1
  5. 2 Conspicuous Consumption in the Twenty-first Century 24
  6. 3 Ballet Slippers and Yale Tuition: Inconspicuous Consumption and the New Elites 46
  7. 4 Motherhood as Conspicuous Leisure in the Twenty-first Century 78
  8. 5 Conspicuous Production 110
  9. 6 Landscapes of Consumption 148
  10. 7 “To Get Rich Is Glorious”? The State of Consumption and Class in America 182
  11. Appendix 199
  12. Notes 221
  13. References 233
  14. Index 247
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