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Boston Tea Party
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-1810, British women boycott slavery sugar
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first "free-product" store opens in Maryland
boycott of slave-produced goods, instigated by Quakers and freed blacks. -
American Medical Association is founded
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Civil War boycott/buycott of North/South
Northerners shopped at "free produce" stores (ie. non-slave-labor), and Southerners boycotted Northern goods (wore homespun clothing). -
"Persons operating fraudulent schemes" are forbidden from using mail
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The Farm Journal publishes first "guarantee of advertising"
...assuring readers that only reputable firms will be allowed to advertise in its pages; other farm periodicals follow suit in the 1880s and 1890s. -
National Consumers' League founded
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National Federation of Advertising Clubs of America is founded, and takes as one of its objectives discouraging fraudulent advertising; group is subsequently renamed Associated Advertising Clubs of America, and later "of the World".
and takes as one of its objectives discouraging fraudulent advertising; group is subsequently renamed Associated Advertising Clubs of America, and later "of the World". -
AMA creates a Propaganda Department, renamed Bureau of Investigation in 1925, to collect and disseminate information about health quackery.
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Upton Sinclair publishes "The Jungle"
"The Jungle", a shocking expose of unsanitary conditions in the American meat packing industry that helps win support for federal oversight of food processing industries. -
Pure Food and Drugs Act passes, establishing the Food and Drug Administration, which is given regulatory oversight of labels and packaging information for over-the-counter drugs but denied power to regulate claims appearing in print advertisements.
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The influential advertising trade journal, Printers' Ink, publishes a model statute defining truth in advertising, which later passes in Ohio (1913) and New York State (1921).
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The Sherley Amendment to the 1906 Food and Drugs Act outlaws false claims on packages and labels but not in other advertising media.
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League of Women Shoppers established
The League worked to increase women%u2019s consumer consciousness through a focus on women%u2019s %u201Cbuying power%u201D and its effect on local labor and consumer issues. -
Consumers' Union founded
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Low-income women successfully demand lower prices
Hundreds of low-income women in Harlem successfully demand a 25% price reduction in meat. -
Consumers' National Federation founded
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American women boycott Japanese silk
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National Association of Consumers founded
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN
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International Organization of Consumers Unions is founded
The International Organization of Consumers Unions (IOCU) is founded by the British, Dutch, Belgian and US consumer movements. -
19% of US are simplifying/downshifting their lives
"Nevertheless, in response to hyperconsump-
tion and the stress, overtime, and psychological
expense that may accompany it, a growing
number of people (estimated at 19 percent of
the U.S. population; Schor 1998) are simplifying
their lifestyle." -
Freecycle
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Bush inaugurated, "Buy Blue" boycott countered by "Shop for George "buycott"