The social cost of cheap food : labour and the political economy of food distribution in Britain, 1830-1914 / Sébastien Rioux.

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"The distribution of food played a considerable yet largely unrecognized role in the economic history of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In the midst of rapid urbanization and industrialization, retail competition intensified and the channels by which food made it to the market became vital to the...

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Main Author: Rioux, Sébastien, 1980- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Food industry and trade > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Food industry and trade > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Labor > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Labor > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Aliments > Industrie et commerce > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Aliments > Industrie et commerce > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travail > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Travail > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Food industry and trade.
Labor.
Great Britain.
1800-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:240 pages ; 23 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
Format: Book

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Call Number: HD9011.5 .R56 2019
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