Food margins lessons from an unlikely grocer / Cathy Stanton.
| Author/creator | Stanton, Cathy |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024] |
| Description | xii, 225 pages 23 |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | "In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-scale ventures struggle to survive, as anthropologist Cathy Stanton discovered when she joined the effort to save a small food co-op in a former mill town in western Massachusetts. On the margins of the dominant system, Stanton found herself reckoning with its deep racial and class inequities, and learning that making real change requires a fierce commitment to community and a willingness to change herself as well. Part memoir and part history lesson, Food Margins traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation, the factory, and the supermarket through the life of one New England town. Stanton tells a complex and compelling story of a rural community imagining and creating a viable alternative to the mainstream in a time of increasingly urgent need to build a more socially and ecologically just food system"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023046521 |
| ISBN | 9781625348050 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781625348067 hardcover |
| ISBN | ebook |