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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Hagley Library studies in business, technology, and politics
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Hagley library studies in business, technology, and politics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 as a bustling produce district in the heart of the city to its current indiscernible place in food industrial parks on the urban periphery. Tangires follows the middlemen, those intermediaries who became functional necessities as the railroads accelerated the process of delivering perishable food to the city. Tracing their rise and decline in the wake of a deregulated food economy, she asks: How did these people, who occupied such key roles as food distributors and suppliers to the retail trade, end up exiled to urban outskirts? Moving into the early twentieth century, she explains how progressive city planners and agricultural economists responded to anxieties about the high cost of living, traffic congestion, and disruptions in the food supply by questioning the centrality, aging infrastructure, and organizational structure of wholesale markets. Tangires combines economic and cultural history by analyzing popular literature, innovative scholarship, and USDA publications. Detailing the legal, physical, and organizational means behind the complex exodus of food wholesaling from the urban core, Tangires also reveals how the trade adjusted to life beyond the city limits as it created new channels of distribution, product lines, and markets." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food industry and trade -- United States -- History.
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Food industry and trade. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Produce trade -- United States -- History.
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Produce trade. |
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Wholesale trade -- United States -- History.
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Wholesale trade. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tangires, Helen, 1956- Movable markets. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019] 9781421427478 (DLC) 2018032692 (OCoLC)1045730367 |
| ISBN |
9781421427485 (electronic book) |
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1421427486 (electronic book) |
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9781421427478 |
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1421427478 |
| Standard No. |
40029003186 |
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