Product quality and governance in the making of the consumer society: selling meat in late- and post-corporative Brussels (1770- 1860) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Recent approaches emphasize the role of governance in providing
the necessary context for a consumer society to take shape. This study contributes to this debate by examining the regulation of a highly degradable, insecure, and potentially dangerous commodity such as meat in the 1770-1860 period of rapid economic, political and urban transition. Examining governance ...