How the Other Half Ate (eBook)

A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century

Katherine Leonard Turner (Autor)

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2014
224 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95761-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. The Problem of Food
2. Factories, Railroads, and Rotary Eggbeaters: From Farm to Table
3. Food and Cooking in the City
4. Between Country and City: Food in Rural Mill Towns and Company Towns
5. "A Woman’s Work Is Never Done": Cooking, Class, and Women’s Work
6. What’s for Dinner Tonight?

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2014
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: bakers bread • baking • boardinghouse restaurant • Child labor • Class • coal town • company towns • consumption • Cultural History • Eating Habits • Economics • factories • Farm to Table • Food • food and agriculture • Food and culture • food farm • food history • food science • Food Studies • food writing • Habitus • History of Food • Immigration • labor studies • Meals • Migrant • mill towns • Nonfiction • Poverty • Sociology • Textile Mills • urbanization • urban studies • womens work • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95761-X / 052095761X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95761-9 / 9780520957619