Consumer Reports. Southwest Regional Office records, 1955-2007

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Summary

Creator:
Consumer Reports (Firm) and John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
Abstract:
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936 as Consumers Union. The Southwest Regional Office was established as a public interest law office in 1979 in Austin, Tex. Collection includes booklets, clippings, correspondence, data charts, journal articles, position statements, press releases, reports, testimonies and other printed materials. Materials primarily relate to advocacy issues in Texas but also touch on similar issues and activities in California, the American West, Appalachia and the U.S. southeast. Organizations represented include Baylor Health Care System, Columbia/HCA, United Methodist Church, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel, and the Texas Public Utility Commission. Materials largely focus on the protection of consumer interests with regard to: electric utility deregulation, environmental justice, funeral industry, health care reform, hospital for-profit conversions, managed medical care plans, mobile and manufactured homes, pesticide use, telephone services and telecommunications. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
15.0 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English and Spanish.
Collection ID:
RL.12067

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes booklets, clippings, correspondence, data charts, journal articles, position statements, press releases, reports, testimonies and other printed materials. Materials primarily relate to advocacy issues in Texas but also touch on similar issues and activities in California, the American West, Appalachia and the U.S. southeast. Organizations represented include Baylor Health Care System, Columbia/HCA, United Methodist Church, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel, and the Texas Public Utility Commission. Materials largely focus on the protection of consumer interests with regard to: electric utility deregulation, environmental justice, funeral industry, health care reform, hospital for-profit conversions, managed medical care plans, mobile and manufactured homes, pesticide use, telephone services and telecommunications.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936 as Consumers Union. The Southwest Regional Office was established as a public interest law office in 1979 in Austin, Tex.

Acquisition information:
The Consumer Reports. Southwest Regional Office records were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift from Consumer Reports in 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Richard Collier, Mar. 2023

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130 (partial).

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: General Office Files; Projects; Published Materials; Reading Files.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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