Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

摘要

The American supermarket has come to symbolize many things: abundance, consumer choice, industrial efficiency, and free enterprise. In Supermarket USA, Shane Hamilton uses the supermarket to investigate the inner workings of industrial agriculture and capitalism. His book is thus much more than the story of the supermarket: it is a history of supply chains, logistics, centralized purchasing, contract farming, the rise of agribusiness, and corporate power-in short, the globalized economy we inhabit today. It also demonstrates the important geopolitical role of food and farm policy in the Cold War and beyond.