How the other half ate : a history of working class meals at the turn of the century / Katherine Leonard Turner.

By:

Turner, Katherine Leonard [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781306168267
9780520957619

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

GT2853 .H698 2014

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Contents:

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?

Subject: 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,

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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?

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,

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