| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index. |
| Contents |
Women and the social politics of food procurement -- Small stores, big business: the rise of chain store groceries, 1914-1933 -- The changing politics of mass consumption, 1910-1940 -- Moments of rebellion: the consumer movement and consumer cooperatives, 1930-1950 -- Grocery stores trade up: the politics of supermarkets and the making of a mass market, 1930-1945 -- Winning the home front: gender and grocery stores during World War II -- Babes in consumerland: supermarkets, hardware stores, and the politics of postwar mass retail. |
| Summary |
In an examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the important roles that gender, business, class, and the state played in the evolution of American grocery stores. She argues that the supermarket, that icon of postwar American life, emerged not from straightforward consumer desire for low prices and convenience, but through government regulations, women customers' demands, and retailers' concerns with financial success and control of the "shop floor." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Supermarkets -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Supermarkets. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Grocery trade -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Grocery trade. |
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Social aspects. |
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Grocery shopping -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Grocery shopping. |
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Women consumers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women consumers. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Deutsch, Tracey. Building a housewife's paradise. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807833278 (DLC) 2009039274 (OCoLC)441211747 |
| ISBN |
9780807898345 (electronic book) |
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0807898341 (electronic book) |
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9781469604121 (electronic book) |
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1469604124 (electronic book) |
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9780807833278 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807833274 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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