ISBN:
9780520957619
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
Edition:
Issued also in print
Series Statement:
California Studies in Food and Culture 48
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Food habits History
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19th century
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United States
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Food habits History
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20th century
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United States
;
Food habits History 19th century
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Food habits History 20th century
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Working class Economic conditions
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United States
;
Working class Social conditions
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United States
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Working class Social life and customs
;
United States
;
Working class Economic conditions
;
Working class Social conditions
;
Working class Social life and customs
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Abstract:
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
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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1. The Problem of Food
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2. Factories, Railroads, and Rotary Eggbeaters: From Farm to Table
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3. Food and Cooking in the City
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4. Between Country and City: Food in Rural Mill Towns and Company Towns
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5. "A Woman's Work Is Never Done": Cooking, Class, and Women's Work
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6. What's for Dinner Tonight?
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Issued also in print
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In English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520957619
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