Legacy
Consumers' Research was a founding organization in the consumer protection movement. Consumers Union grew strongly while Consumers' Research languished. In its later years, Consumers' Research stopped testing products and instead focused on providing consumer advice and covering policy issues from health and safety issues to cable TV competition.
The establishment of Consumers Union was one of the major events influencing the consumer movement after World War I. Other important organizations formed in the same era were the New Deal programs aimed at promoting economic recovery after the Great Depression by increasing consumer representation in the market, with the Consumer Advisory Board within the National Recovery Administration and the Consumers' Counsel within the United States Department of Agriculture being notable among them.
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