Kill and Chill : Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tables -- Figures -- Introduction -- PART ONE: PRODUCING CATTLE -- 1 Calf Production: Breeding Beef Cows -- 2 Feedlot Alchemy: Turning Grain into Beef -- 3 Cattle Logistics: From Stockyards and Cattle Cars to Auction Marts and Cattle Liners -- PART TWO: PROCESSING BEEF -- 4 Industrialization, Regulation, and Canada's Early Beef Packers -- 5 The Kill Floor at Mid-century: From the Knocking Box to the Hot Box -- 6 Canada's Beef Trust: The Rise and Fall of the Big Three -- 7 Organizing Kill-Floor Workers and Pattern Bargaining -- 8 An Industry Transformed: Meat-Packing Metamorphosis -- PART THREE: MARKETING BEEF -- 9 Marketing Meat: From Branch House to Postmodern Retailing -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

A history of the structural changes in Canada's cattle and beef commodity chain, beginning with calf production and cattle feeding on farms and feedlots. It goes on to describe the changes in cattle marketing and the historical development of meatpacking.

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