Food Chains : From Farmyard to Shopping Cart.
Belasco, Warren.
Food Chains : From Farmyard to Shopping Cart. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (305 pages) - Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Series . - Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Making Food Chains: The Book -- Part I. Overview -- Chapter 2. How Much Depends on Dinner? -- Chapter 3. Analyzing Commodity Chains: Linkages or Restraints? -- Part II. Animals -- Chapter 4. Lard to Lean: Making the Meat-Type Hog in Post-World War II America -- Chapter 5. The Chicken, the Factory Farm, and the Supermarket: The Emergence of the Modern Poultry Industry in Britain -- Chapter 6. Trading Quality, Producing Value: Crabmeat, HACCP, and Global Seafood Trade -- Part III. Processing -- Chapter 7. Anchovy Sauce and Pickled Tripe: Exporting Civilized Food in the Colonial Atlantic -- Chapter 8. What's Left at the Bottom of the Glass: The Quest for Purity and the Development of the American Natural Ice Industry -- Chapter 9. Provisioning Man's Best Friend: The Early Years of the American Pet Food Industry, 1870-1942 -- Chapter 10. Empire of Ice Cream: How Life Became Sweeter in the Postwar Soviet Union -- Chapter 11. Eating Mexican in a Global Age: The Politics and Production of Ethnic Food -- Part IV. Sales -- Chapter 12. The Aristocracy of the Market Basket: Self-Service Food Shopping in the New South -- Chapter 13. Making Markets Marxist? The East European Grocery Store from Rationing to Rationality to Rationalizations -- Chapter 14. Tools and Spaces: Food and Cooking in Working-Class Neighborhoods, 1880-1930 -- Chapter 15. Wheeling One's Groceries around the Store: The Invention of the Shopping Cart, 1936-1953 -- Notes -- List of Contributors.
This collection of fascinating historical case studies reveals the remarkable inner workings of the modern food provisioning system and the complex web of institutions that move food from the farm to the dinner table.
9780812204445
Food industry and trade.
Food supply.
Food consumption.
Food-Marketing.
Consumers' preferences.
Electronic books.
HD9000.5 -- .F5938 2009eb
381/.41
Food Chains : From Farmyard to Shopping Cart. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (305 pages) - Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Series . - Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Making Food Chains: The Book -- Part I. Overview -- Chapter 2. How Much Depends on Dinner? -- Chapter 3. Analyzing Commodity Chains: Linkages or Restraints? -- Part II. Animals -- Chapter 4. Lard to Lean: Making the Meat-Type Hog in Post-World War II America -- Chapter 5. The Chicken, the Factory Farm, and the Supermarket: The Emergence of the Modern Poultry Industry in Britain -- Chapter 6. Trading Quality, Producing Value: Crabmeat, HACCP, and Global Seafood Trade -- Part III. Processing -- Chapter 7. Anchovy Sauce and Pickled Tripe: Exporting Civilized Food in the Colonial Atlantic -- Chapter 8. What's Left at the Bottom of the Glass: The Quest for Purity and the Development of the American Natural Ice Industry -- Chapter 9. Provisioning Man's Best Friend: The Early Years of the American Pet Food Industry, 1870-1942 -- Chapter 10. Empire of Ice Cream: How Life Became Sweeter in the Postwar Soviet Union -- Chapter 11. Eating Mexican in a Global Age: The Politics and Production of Ethnic Food -- Part IV. Sales -- Chapter 12. The Aristocracy of the Market Basket: Self-Service Food Shopping in the New South -- Chapter 13. Making Markets Marxist? The East European Grocery Store from Rationing to Rationality to Rationalizations -- Chapter 14. Tools and Spaces: Food and Cooking in Working-Class Neighborhoods, 1880-1930 -- Chapter 15. Wheeling One's Groceries around the Store: The Invention of the Shopping Cart, 1936-1953 -- Notes -- List of Contributors.
This collection of fascinating historical case studies reveals the remarkable inner workings of the modern food provisioning system and the complex web of institutions that move food from the farm to the dinner table.
9780812204445
Food industry and trade.
Food supply.
Food consumption.
Food-Marketing.
Consumers' preferences.
Electronic books.
HD9000.5 -- .F5938 2009eb
381/.41