Joshua Specht: Red Meat Republic

Cover: 9780691182315 | Red Meat Republic | Joshua Specht | Histories of Economic Life | 2019

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By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs. Joshua Specht puts people at the heart of his story--the big cattle ranchers who helped to drive the nation's westward expansion, the meatpackers who created a radically new kind of industrialized slaughterhouse, and the stockyard workers who were subjected to the shocking and unsanitary conditions described by Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle. Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots in the streets of New York. He shows how the enduring success of the cattle-beef complex--centralized, low cost, and meatpacker dominated--was a consequence of the meatpackers' ability to make their interests overlap with that of a hungry public, while the interests of struggling ranchers, desperate workers, and bankrupt butchers took a backseat. America--and the American table--would never be the same again.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Reihe:	Histories of Economic Life
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780691182315
ISBN-10:	0691182310
Sprache:	Englisch
Autor:	Specht, Joshua
Hersteller:	KNV Besorgung
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen:	12 b/w illus. 2 maps
Maße:	226 x 144 x 37 mm
Von/Mit:	Joshua Specht
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.05.2019
Gewicht:	0,522 kg

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