| Where Stuff Comes From is about paper clips, post-its, bathtubs, cars and all the other stuff in our lives. It is about how these items were imagined into existence and made a part of the American material culture. From the designer to the manufacturer to the business owner to the consumer, Molotch guides us through the worlds of technology, design, corporate culture and popular culture, giving us a sense of how and why we want stuff. He rolls up his sleeves and goes behind the scenes at trade shows and in design studios to speak with the product-makers who gave us the world's best-selling garlic press, the Nike swoosh and Volkswagen's resurrected Beetle.
About the Author
Harvey Molotch holds a joint appoint as Professor of Metropolitan Studies and Sociology at New York University and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a former Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. His book Urban Fortunes won the distinguished Scholarly Contribution to Sociology Award and the Robert Park Book of the Year Award of the American Sociological Association's Urban and Community Studies section. |
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