School lunch politics: the surprising history of America's favorite welfare program

Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twent...

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1. Verfasser: Levine, Susan 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press 2010
Ausgabe:First paperback printing
Schriftenreihe:Politics and society in twentieth-century America
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Zusammenfassung:Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentieth-century nutrition science, through the establishment of the National School Lunch Program in 1946, to the transformation of school meals into a poverty program during the 1970s and 1980s. Susan Levine investigates the politics and culture of food; most specifically, who decides what American children should be eating...
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ISBN:9780691146195
9780691050881

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