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The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350022119)
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xTracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging.
From tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic trays and stretch-wrap, Murcott shows the importance of food packaging for global food systems. As a pioneering excursion into the many aspects of the history of food packaging, the book examines shifts from domestic to commercial production, the emergence of associated technologies, changes in retailing, implications for policy and practice, along with current concerns about overpackaging. Taking a wide historical and geographical angle, Murcott draws on sources such as trade magazines, manufacturers' archives, company histories, packaging textbooks, histories of international trade and interviews with key industry 'insiders'. Written by a leading figure in the field, this book will benefit students of social studies of food production and consumption, of cultural studies, as well as researchers and those interested in the history of food.Author: Anne Murcott
ISBN-10: 135002211X
ISBN-13: 9781350022119
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 01/11/2024
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Anne Murcott
xAnne Murcott is Honorary Professorial Research Associate, at SOAS, University of London, Professor Emerita at London South Bank University and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. In 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Her most recent book is the textbook The Sociology of Food & Eating (2019).
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