Food Chains : : From Farmyard to Shopping Cart / / ed. by Warren Belasco, Roger Horowitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, J. L.,; Belasco, Warren,; Feltault, Kelly,; Godley, Andrew C.,; Grandclément, Catherine,; Grier, Katherine C.,; Hamilton, Shane,; Horowitz, Roger,; Hyder Patterson, Patrick,; Leigh Smith, Jenny,; Pilcher, Jeffrey M.,; Rees, Jonathan,; Tolbert, Lisa C.,; Turner, Katherine Leonard,; Wilk, Richard R.,; Williams, Bridget,
• HerausgeberIn: Belasco, Warren,; Horowitz, Roger,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 26 illus.

In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have had their say, but until...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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 World
• 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
• Contributors