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Kill and chill : restructuring Canada's beef commodity chain /
"Both horrified and fascinated by a visit he made with his geography students to the Canada Packers Lethbridge plant, Ian MacLachlan searched for a book that would explain the main workings of the Canadian meat-packing industry. Finding very little available on the subject, he set about writing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Tables
- Figures
- Introduction
- PART ONE: PRODUCING CATTLE
- 1 Calf Production: Breeding Beef Cows
- 2 Feedlot Alchemy: Turning Grain into Beef
- 3 Cattle Logistics: From Stockyards and Cattle Cars to Auction Marts and Cattle Liners
- PART TWO: PROCESSING BEEF
- 4 Industrialization, Regulation, and Canada's Early Beef Packers
- 5 The Kill Floor at Mid-century: From the Knocking Box to the Hot Box
- 6 Canada's Beef Trust: The Rise and Fall of the Big Three
- 7 Organizing Kill-Floor Workers and Pattern Bargaining
- 8 An Industry Transformed: Meat-Packing MetamorphosisPART THREE: MARKETING BEEF
- 9 Marketing Meat: From Branch House to Postmodern Retailing
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
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