Movable markets : food wholesaling in the twentieth-century city
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Movable markets : food wholesaling in the twentieth-century city
（Hagley Library studies in business, technology, and politics / Richard R. John, series editor）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-282) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Part I. Open Entry
1. Shelter for the Middleman
2. The Produce District: Design by Improvisation
Part II. Consolidation
3. Planning the Wholesale Terminal Market
4. The Nation's Capital: Testing Ground for the Wholesale Trade
Part III. New Frontiers
5. The New Deal: Birth of the State-Sponsored Regional Market
6. Industrial Parks and the USDA Paradigm
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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