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Building a housewife's paradise : gender, politics, and American grocery stores in the twentieth century /
In an examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the important roles that gender, business, class, and the state played in the evolution of American grocery stores. She argues that the supermarket, that icon of postwar American life, emerged not from s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In an examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the important roles that gender, business, class, and the state played in the evolution of American grocery stores. She argues that the supermarket, that icon of postwar American life, emerged not from straightforward consumer desire for low prices and convenience, but through government regulations, women customers' demands, and retailers' concerns with financial success and control of the "shop floor." |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807898345 0807898341 9781469604121 1469604124 |