Editing Consumers' Research (section)

{{Short description|US non-profit organization}}

'''Consumers' Research''' is an American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Established in 1929, it was a founding organization in the [[Consumer movement|consumer protection]] movement. It turned to the right after its sale in 1981 to a conservative publisher.<ref name="Mufson2023" />

The organization was established by [[Stuart Chase]] and [[F. J. Schlink]] after the success of their book ''[[Your Money's Worth]]'' galvanized interest in [[Product testing|testing products]] on behalf of consumers. It published a monthly magazine called ''Consumers' Research Bulletin''. Leading staff from this organization, thwarted in their efforts to establish a [[collective bargaining]] unit of a [[trade union|labor union]], protested and left to form [[Consumers Union]] in 1936. The magazine published by Consumers Union, initially ''Consumers Union Reports'' and now called ''[[Consumer Reports]]'', gained popularity and market share over the ''Bulletin'' and largely supplanted its relevance.

The organization stopped assessing products in the 1980s after its acquisition by [[M. Stanton Evans]] and was mostly dormant by the early 2000s. It was resuscitated in the 2020s as a Republican-aligned group.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vogel |first1=Kenneth P. |title=Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He's Aiming at American Society. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/leonard-leo-courts-dark-money.html |access-date=30 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=12 October 2022}}</ref> It has launched campaigns targeting "[[Woke|wokeness]]", including "[[Corporate sociopolitical activism|woke capitalism]]" and [[environmental, social, and corporate governance]] (ESG) initiatives in corporate America.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nichols |first1=Hans |date=April 16, 2023 |title=Conservatives plot text warnings on "woke" products |url=https://www.axios.com/2023/04/14/conservatives-plot-text-warning-woke-products |access-date=30 May 2024 |work=Axios}}</ref>