| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
California studies in food and culture |
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California studies in food and culture ; 48
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| Contents |
The problem of food -- Factories, railroads, and rotary eggbeaters: from farm to table -- Food and cooking in the city -- Between country and city: food in rural mill towns and company towns -- "A woman's work is never done": cooking, class, and women's work -- What's for dinner tonight? |
| Summary |
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, |
| Analysis |
bakers bread |
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baking |
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boardinghouse restaurant |
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child labor |
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class |
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coal town |
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company towns |
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consumption |
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cultural history |
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eating habits |
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economics |
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factories |
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farm to table |
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food and agriculture |
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food and culture |
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food farm |
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food history |
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food science |
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food studies |
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food writing |
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food |
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habitus |
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history of food |
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immigration |
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labor studies |
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meals |
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migrant |
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mill towns |
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nonfiction |
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poverty |
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sociology |
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textile mills |
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urban studies |
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urbanization |
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womens work |
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working class |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2020) |
| Subject |
Food habits -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Food habits -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Working class -- United States -- Social conditions
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Working class -- United States -- Social life and customs
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Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
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COOKING -- History.
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Food habits
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Working class -- Economic conditions
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Working class -- Social conditions
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Working class -- Social life and customs
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306168260 |
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9781306168267 |
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9780520957619 |
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052095761X |
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