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The Social Cost of Cheap Food: Labour and the Political Economy of Food Distribution in Britain, 1830-1914

Sebastien Rioux • McGill-Queens University Press • ISBN 9780773559004

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The Social Cost of Cheap Food: Labour and the Political Economy of Food Distribution in Britain, 1830-1914

Sebastien Rioux • McGill-Queens University Press • ISBN-13 9780773559004

ISBN-10 1777661382 • 2019

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ISBN 9780773559004 • Completeness 46

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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 country's economic success.

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Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
2019
Pages: 240

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Contributor: Sébastien Rioux

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