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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: MacLachlan, Ian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • ""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 Metamorphosis""""PART THREE: MARKETING BEEF""; ""9 Marketing Meat: From Branch House to Postmodern Retailing""; ""10 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""