Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520343368)

Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.

Author: Joshua Frens-String
ISBN-10: 0520343360
ISBN-13: 9780520343368
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2021
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.94d