The main features of current retail trade stem from innovations in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the creation of department stores. The present article examines the link between this invention and the emergence of new socio-economic relations which marked the beginnings of the consumer society and in which women were to play a significant part, first as customers and then also as employees of the new stores. Several aspects were common to the UK, France and the USA, such as the bureaucrati- zation of buyer-seller relations, the significance of display and the splendour of the buildings, the « democratization » related to reduced prices and free entry, the creation of a new type of employee from the middle-classes, and the ...
À la fin du XIXe siècle, la production sérielle de vêtements selon des tailles standardisées (confec...
International audienceCustomer appropriation in luxury brand stores. A typologyThis article analyzes...
The developments of the English Revolution and of the British Empire expedited commerce and transfor...
The main features of current retail trade stem from innovations in the second half of the nineteenth...
The first department store, which opens at the end of the 19th century in Great Britain, is a truly ...
France's transition from an agrarian-aristocratic to an industrial-consumer society accelerated in t...
This is a review article on the history of retailing, which has not been studied in France as much a...
As argued above, the specific historical role of the grands magasins follows directly out of their c...
Fashion merchants were acknowledged as the highest status trade and dynamic agents for change within...
In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer m...
The Industrial Revolution brought with it changes in manufacturing, advertising and social order, w...
International audienceSince the end of the 18th century, there have always been shopkeepers to exper...
The developments that occurred as a result of the Industrial Revolution and during the British Empir...
This article analyses the new “ local” strategy of the large retail industry in France to identify p...
Henri Le More The rise of a new social actor : commercial manager (1881) In this article, the auth...
À la fin du XIXe siècle, la production sérielle de vêtements selon des tailles standardisées (confec...
International audienceCustomer appropriation in luxury brand stores. A typologyThis article analyzes...
The developments of the English Revolution and of the British Empire expedited commerce and transfor...
The main features of current retail trade stem from innovations in the second half of the nineteenth...
The first department store, which opens at the end of the 19th century in Great Britain, is a truly ...
France's transition from an agrarian-aristocratic to an industrial-consumer society accelerated in t...
This is a review article on the history of retailing, which has not been studied in France as much a...
As argued above, the specific historical role of the grands magasins follows directly out of their c...
Fashion merchants were acknowledged as the highest status trade and dynamic agents for change within...
In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer m...
The Industrial Revolution brought with it changes in manufacturing, advertising and social order, w...
International audienceSince the end of the 18th century, there have always been shopkeepers to exper...
The developments that occurred as a result of the Industrial Revolution and during the British Empir...
This article analyses the new “ local” strategy of the large retail industry in France to identify p...
Henri Le More The rise of a new social actor : commercial manager (1881) In this article, the auth...
À la fin du XIXe siècle, la production sérielle de vêtements selon des tailles standardisées (confec...
International audienceCustomer appropriation in luxury brand stores. A typologyThis article analyzes...
The developments of the English Revolution and of the British Empire expedited commerce and transfor...