How the Other Half Ate A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century

Name: How the Other Half Ate A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century
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ISBN: 9780520277588

ISBN-10: 0520277589

ISBN-13: 9780520277588

Edition: 2014

Authors: Katherine Leonard Turner

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working class Americans held eating habits that were shaped by the conditions of their work and home lives. For the urban poor, long hours in factories and small apartments with limited cooking facilities meant that many favored purchasing ready-made foods at delis and bakeries over cooking at home. Much like the campaign against childhood obesity raging today, turn-of-the-century progressive social reformers were acutely concerned with how poor people ate and worked tirelessly to enact change.In How the Other Half Ate, historian Katherine Leonard Turner delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/10/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English