Movable Markets : Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City /

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"In nineteenth-century America, municipal deregulation of the butcher trade and state-incorporated market companies gave rise to a flourishing wholesale trade. In Movable Markets, Helen Tangires describes the evolution of the American wholesale marketplace for fresh food, from its development a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tangires, Helen, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lebensmittelgrosshandel
Lebensmittelwirtschaft
Lebensmittelindustrie
Wholesale trade.
Produce trade.
Food industry and trade.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Sales & Selling > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
Commerce de gros > États-Unis > Histoire.
Produits agricoles > Commerce > États-Unis > Histoire.
Wholesale trade > United States > History.
Produce trade > United States > History.
Food industry and trade > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Open Entry
  • Shelter for the Middleman
  • The Produce District: Design by Improvisation
  • Part II. Consolidation
  • Planning the Wholesale Terminal Market
  • The Nation's Capital: Testing Ground for the Wholesale Trade
  • Part III. New Frontiers
  • The New Deal: Birth of the State-Sponsored Regional Market
  • Industrial Parks and the USDA Paradigm.

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