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Food Co-ops in America : Communities, Consumption, and Economic Democracy /

"In recent years, American shoppers have become more conscious of their food choices and have increasingly turned to CSAs, farmers' markets, organic foods in supermarkets, and to joining and forming new food co-ops. In fact, food co-ops have been a viable food source, as well as a means of...

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Auteur principal: Knupfer, Anne Meis, 1951- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Food Co-Ops in America
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction : A democratic impulse
  • 1. Food cooperatives before the Great Depression
  • Part I. Collective Visions of the Depression
  • 2. Food cooperatives, 1930s-1950s
  • 3. Ithaca Consumer Co-operative Society
  • 4. The Hyde Park Co-operative Society
  • 5. Hanover Consumer Co-operative Society
  • 6. Adamant Food Co-operative and Putney Food Co-operative
  • Part II. Food For People Or Profit?
  • 7. Food cooperatives, 1960s-1990s
  • 8. North Coast Co-operatives in Arcata, Eureka, and Fortuna
  • 9. New Pioneer Co-operative Society
  • 10. Cooperatives in the Twin Cities
  • Epilogue : The age of the "Organic-Industrial Complex"
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.