Children and consumer culture in American society : a historical handbook and guide / edited by Lisa Jacobson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-185) and index.

Essays. Advertising, mass merchandising, and the creation of children's consumer culture / Lisa Jacobson -- Children's media consumption and struggles for cultural authority in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Amanda Bruce -- Reforming the delinquent child consumer: institutional responses to children's consumption from the late nineteenth century to the present / Paul Ringel -- Parents and children in the consumer household: regulating and negotiating the boundaries of children's consumer freedoms and family obligations / Lisa Jacobson. -- Documents. Promoting the child consumer -- Courting child consumers -- Child consumers, the mass media, and mass amusements -- Advertising in the public schools -- Thrift education and school savings banks -- Parenting and parent-child relationships in the consumer household.