Retail and Community: Business, Charity and the End of Empire (First Edition)

By: Nadia Awal and Jessica Field and Triona Fitton and Majorie Gehrhardt and Jenny Gilbert and Nick Gray and Harshad Keval and Ruth MacDonald and Ian Mitchell and Massimiliano Papini

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Synopsis: 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.