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

Both horrified and fascinated by a visit with his geography students to the Canada Packers Lethbridge plant, Ian MacLachlan searched for a book that would explain the main features of the Canadian meat packing industry. Finding very little available, he set about writing an account of the industry t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2001
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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