Editing Consumer organization (section)

==History==
Two precursor organizations to the modern consumer organization are [[standards organizations]] and consumers leagues.<ref name ="Rao1998">{{cite journal|last=Rao|first=Hayagreeva|title=Caveat emptor: The construction of nonprofit consumer watchdog organizations.|journal=The American Journal of Sociology|year=1998|volume=103|issue=4|pages=912–961|url=http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/organizations/smo/protected/resources/watchajs.pdf|access-date=12 December 2012|doi=10.1086/231293|s2cid=143250168|archive-date=31 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131221303/http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/organizations/smo/protected/resources/watchajs.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Both of these appeared in the United States around 1900.<ref name ="Rao1998"/>

[[Trade associations]] and [[professional societies]] began to establish standards organizations to reduce industry waste and increase productivity.<ref name ="Rao1998"/> Consumer leagues modeled themselves after [[trade unions]] in their attempts to improve the market with [[boycotts]] in the same way that trade unions sought to improve working conditions with [[strike action]].<ref name ="Rao1998"/>