Food chains : from farmyard to shopping cart / / edited by Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Belasco, Warren James.; Horowitz, Roger.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Hagley perspectives on business and culture
• Physical Description: 296 p. :; ill.
• Other title: From farmyard to shopping cart; Making food chains : the book /; How much depends on dinner? /; Analyzing commodity chains : linkages or restraints? /; Lard to lean : making the meat-type hog in post-World War II America /; chicken, the factory farm, and the supermarket : the emergence of the modern poultry industry in Britain /; Trading quality, producing value : crabmeat, HACCP, and global seafood trade /; Anchovy sauce and pickled tripe : exporting civilized food in the colonial Atlantic world /; What's left at the bottom of the glass : the quest for purity and the development of the American natural ice industry /; Provisioning man's best friend : the early years of the American pet food industry, 1870-1942 /; Empire of ice cream : how life became sweeter in the postwar Soviet Union /; Eating Mexican in a global age : the politics and production of ethnic food /; aristocracy of the market basket : self-service food shopping in the new South /; Making markets Marxist? : the East European grocery store from rationing to rationality to rationalizations /; Tools and spaces : food and cooking in working-class neighborhoods, 1880-1930 /; Wheeling one's groceries around the store : the invention of the shopping cart, 1936-1953 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-294).
• ISBN: 9780812241280 (alk. paper); 0812241282 (alk. paper); 9780812221343; 9780812204445 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz.