Production – Sources:

Web:

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Archival: 

• Canadian Tire Catalogue. Toronto, Ont: Canadian Tire Corporation., 1974/75.
• Consumers Distributing Buying Guide. S.l: Canadian Tire Corporation., 1974/75.
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Scholarly:

• Clarkson, Stephen. “The Branch-Plant Economy.” Economic and Political Weekly 7, no. 36 (1972): 1827–31. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4361760.
• Gibbons, Lucy, and Helen Skelton. History of colour in plastics. Accessed March 5, 2025. https://www.pigments.com/wp-content/uploads/ANTEC-2019-History-of-Colour-FINAL-Paper.pdf. 
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Consumption – Sources:

Web:

• "Plastic Shakes Up the Toy Industry." Plastics: The Mag, November 23, 2011. https://plastics-themag.com/Plastic-shakes-up-the-toy-industry. 
• "Teen Spending Habits: Where Do Teenagers Spend Their Money?" Lexington Law, July 25, 2023. https://www.lexingtonlaw.com/blog/credit-cards/teen-spending-habits.html. 
• "American Spending Habits: A Look at How Much People Spend on Essentials and Non-Essentials." Lexington Law, January 12, 2023. https://www.lexingtonlaw.com/blog/credit-cards/american-spending-habits.html. 
• American Chemical Society. "Bakelite: The World's First Synthetic Plastic." ACS Chemistry for Life, November 9, 1993. Accessed March 4, 2025. https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/bakelite.html. 
• "School Attendance of the Total Population of Canada 10 to 19 Years of Age, 1921." The Canada Year Book, 1927. Statistics Canada. https://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb02/1927/acyb02_19270142041b-eng.html.
• "Elementary and Secondary Education in Canada, 1940-42." Statistics Canada, 1942. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/statcan/81-401/CS81-401-1942-eng.pdf.

Scholarly:

• Herrmann, Robert O. "Today's Young Adults as Consumers." Journal of Consumer Research 4, no. 1 (1977): 60–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23858519.
• Marshall, David. Understanding Children as Consumers. London: SAGE Publications, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446251539.
• Poe, Randy, et al. "Music of the 1960s: The Praxis of Ideological Change." Popular Music and Society 24, no. 1 (2000): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5590/JOSC.2019.11.1.03.
• Morton, David. Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
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• Mauch, Matthias, Robert M. MacCallum, Mark Levy, and Armand M. Leroi. "The Evolution of Popular Music: USA 1960–2010." Royal Society Open Science 2, no. 5 (2015): 150081. C. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150081.
• Hine, Thomas. The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-teenager-thomas-hine.
• Verboord, Marc, and Amanda Brandellero. "The Globalization of Popular Music, 1960–2010: A Multilevel Analysis of Music Flows." Communication Research 45, no. 4 (2018): 603–627. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650215623834.
• Zikmund, William G., and William J. Stanton. "Recycling Solid Wastes: A Channels-of-Distribution Problem." Journal of Marketing 35, no. 3 (1971): 34–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/1249787.
• Whiteley, Nigel. "Toward a Throw-Away Culture: Consumerism, 'Style Obsolescence,' and Cultural Theory in the 1950s and 1960s." Oxford Art Journal 10, no. 2 (1987): 3–27. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/10.2.3.
• Meikle, Jeffrey L. "Material Doubts: The Consequences of Plastic." Environmental History 2, no. 3 (1997): 278–300. https://doi.org/10.2307/3985351.
• Savage, Jon. Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture. New York: Viking, 2007. https://books.google.ca/books/about/Teenage.html?id=jtcoAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y. 
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• Goldin, Claudia. “America’s Graduation from High School: The Evolution and Spread of Secondary Schooling in the Twentieth Century.” The Journal of Economic History 58, no. 2 (1998): 345–74. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2566738. 
• O’Connor, Henrietta, and John Goodwin. 2015. “Youth Culture and Leisure in the 1960s.” In Norbert Elias’s Lost Research, 1st ed., 105–26. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598505-7.
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• Heaven, Robert. Social Life for Teenagers in 1960s Cirencester. Photograph. Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 1960s. https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/11755196.social-life-for-teenagers-in-1960s-cirencester/.
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Mediation – Sources:

Web:

• Richter, Felix. “Chart: Despite Comeback, Vinyl Is Still Far from Its Glory Days | Statista.” Statista, April 19, 2024. https://www.statista.com/chart/7699/lp-sales-in-the-united-states/. 
• Archival: 
• Canadian Tire Catalogue. Toronto, Ont: Canadian Tire Corporation., Spring / Summer 1972.

Scholarly:

• Cook, Daniel T. 2000. “The Other "Child Study": Figuring Children as Consumers in Market Research, 1910s-1990s.” Pp. 487-507 in The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Summer, 2000). https://www.jstor.org/stable/4121388
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• McNeal, James U. 1969. "The Child as Consumer." Journal of Retailing Vol. 45:15-22.

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• The Sault Star. November 29, 1972. p. 64. Digital Image. Newspapers + Publisher Extra https://www.newspapers.com : 2025.
• The Tallahassee Democrat. May 7, 1969. p. 07. Digital Image. Newspapers + Publisher Extra https://www.newspapers.com : 2025.
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