Author: Chicago Municipal Markets CommissionPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Preliminary Report to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Chicago by the Chicago Municipal Markets Commission
Author: Chicago Municipal Markets CommissionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Movable Markets
Author: Helen TangiresPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421427486
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The untold story of America's wholesale food business. In nineteenth-century America, municipal deregulation of the butcher trade and state-incorporated market companies gave rise to a flourishing wholesale trade. In Movable Markets, Helen Tangires describes the evolution of the American wholesale marketplace for fresh food, from its development as a bustling produce district in the heart of the city to its current indiscernible place in food industrial parks on the urban periphery. Tangires follows the middlemen, those intermediaries who became functional necessities as the railroads accelerated the process of delivering perishable food to the city. Tracing their rise and decline in the wake of a deregulated food economy, she asks: How did these people, who occupied such key roles as food distributors and suppliers to the retail trade, end up exiled to urban outskirts? Moving into the early twentieth century, she explains how progressive city planners and agricultural economists responded to anxieties about the high cost of living, traffic congestion, and disruptions in the food supply by questioning the centrality, aging infrastructure, and organizational structure of wholesale markets. Tangires combines economic and cultural history by analyzing popular literature, innovative scholarship, and USDA publications. Detailing the legal, physical, and organizational means behind the complex exodus of food wholesaling from the urban core, Tangires also reveals how the trade adjusted to life beyond the city limits as it created new channels of distribution, product lines, and markets. Readers interested in US history, city and regional planning history, food history, and public policy, as well as anyone curious about the disappearance of the central produce district as a major component of the city, will find Movable Markets a fascinating read.
Public Markets
Author: Walton Simon BittnerPublisher:
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Category : Markets
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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National Municipal Review
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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American Municipal Progress
Author: Charles ZueblinPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Report
Author: Russell Sage Foundation. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Public
Author: Louis Freeland PostPublisher:
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Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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How the Other Half Ate
Author: Katherine Leonard TurnerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520277589
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens—along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food landscape in American working-class families from industrialization through the 1950s. Relevant to readers across a range of disciplines—history, economics, sociology, urban studies, women’s studies, and food studies—this work fills an important gap in historical literature by illustrating how families experienced food and cooking during the so-called age of abundance. Turner delivers an engaging portrait that shows how America’s working class, in a multitude of ways, has shaped the foods we eat today.
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