Counter Cultures Gustavo Barbosa Motts opened the Pekin Theater

Motts opened the Pekin Theater in Chicago

while their cousins elsewhere grew up to five times larger

rather than books that simply offer ammunition for one side or the other

Drawing on newspapers

Counter Cultures Gustavo Barbosa Motts opened the Pekin TheaterThe luxurious appearance and handsome profits of American department stores from 1890 to 1940 masked a three way struggle among saleswomen, managers, and customers for control of the selling floor. Counter Cultures explores the complex nature and contradictions of the conflict in an arena where class, gender, and the emerging culture of consumption all came together. ''Counter Cultures is a path breaking and imaginative social history. Benson has made