Noel Thompson graduated from St. Andrews University in 1974, and pursued a Masters degree in Economic and Political Thought at Queen's University Belfast, before undertaking research leading to the award of a doctorate by the University of Cambridge. He was appointed to a lectureship in Swansea University in 1979, was awarded a personal chair in 1999, and has been Head of its Department of History, School of Humanities, Acting Head of the School of Law, and of the College of Business, Economics and Law. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) in 2008 and resigned from that post to take up a Visiting Fellowship at St. Catherine's College, Oxford in 2014.His research is focused primarily on the history of British anti-capitalist and socialist political economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and his most recent monographs include Political Economy and the Labour Party: the economics of democratic socialism, 1884-2005 (2006), Left in the wilderness: the political economy of British democratic socialism since 1979 (2002), and The Real Rights of Man: political economies for the working class, 1775-1850 (1998).

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• Introduction ; 1. On the cusp of abundance, socialist political economy, the consumer and consumption, 1800-50 ; 2. Socialist political economy and the growth of mass consumption, 1880-1914 ; 3. 'Punished by the attainment of their desires': Social democratic conceptions of consumption and the consumer in inter-war Britain ; 4. Conceptualising the consumer in an age of affluence, 1950-1970 ; 5. Social democracy and the apotheosis of the consumer, 1970-2010 ; 6. Gathering the fragments: critiquing the new consumerism, 1970-2010 ; 7. Retrospect and Prospect ; Bibliography

Noel Thompson graduated from St. Andrews University in 1974, and pursued a Masters degree in Economic and Political Thought at Queen's University Belfast, before undertaking research leading to the award of a doctorate by the University of Cambridge. He was appointed to a lectureship in Swansea University in 1979, was awarded a personal chair in 1999, and has been Head of its Department of History, School of Humanities, Acting Head of the School of Law, and of the College of Business, Economics and Law. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) in 2008 and resigned from that post to take up a Visiting Fellowship at St. Catherine's College, Oxford in 2014.His research is focused primarily on the history of British anti-capitalist and socialist political economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and his most recent monographs include Political Economy and the Labour Party: the economics of democratic socialism, 1884-2005 (2006), Left in the wilderness: the political economy of British democratic socialism since 1979 (2002), and The Real Rights of Man: political economies for the working class, 1775-1850 (1998).

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• Introduction ; 1. On the cusp of abundance, socialist political economy, the consumer and consumption, 1800-50 ; 2. Socialist political economy and the growth of mass consumption, 1880-1914 ; 3. 'Punished by the attainment of their desires': Social democratic conceptions of consumption and the consumer in inter-war Britain ; 4. Conceptualising the consumer in an age of affluence, 1950-1970 ; 5. Social democracy and the apotheosis of the consumer, 1970-2010 ; 6. Gathering the fragments: critiquing the new consumerism, 1970-2010 ; 7. Retrospect and Prospect ; Bibliography

Noel Thompson graduated from St. Andrews University in 1974, and pursued a Masters degree in Economic and Political Thought at Queen's University Belfast, before undertaking research leading to the award of a doctorate by the University of Cambridge. He was appointed to a lectureship in Swansea University in 1979, was awarded a personal chair in 1999, and has been Head of its Department of History, School of Humanities, Acting Head of the School of Law, and of the College of Business, Economics and Law. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) in 2008 and resigned from that post to take up a Visiting Fellowship at St. Catherine's College, Oxford in 2014.His research is focused primarily on the history of British anti-capitalist and socialist political economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and his most recent monographs include Political Economy and the Labour Party: the economics of democratic socialism, 1884-2005 (2006), Left in the wilderness: the political economy of British democratic socialism since 1979 (2002), and The Real Rights of Man: political economies for the working class, 1775-1850 (1998).

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• Introduction ; 1. On the cusp of abundance, socialist political economy, the consumer and consumption, 1800-50 ; 2. Socialist political economy and the growth of mass consumption, 1880-1914 ; 3. 'Punished by the attainment of their desires': Social democratic conceptions of consumption and the consumer in inter-war Britain ; 4. Conceptualising the consumer in an age of affluence, 1950-1970 ; 5. Social democracy and the apotheosis of the consumer, 1970-2010 ; 6. Gathering the fragments: critiquing the new consumerism, 1970-2010 ; 7. Retrospect and Prospect ; Bibliography