The untold story of America's wholesale food business. In
nineteenth-century America, municipal deregulation of the butcher
trade and state-incorporated market companies gave rise to a
flourishing wholesale trade. In Movable Markets, Helen Tangires
describes the evolution of the American wholesale marketplace for
fresh food, from its development as a bustling produce district in
the heart of the city to its current indiscernible place in food
industrial parks on the urban periphery. Tangires follows the
middlemen, those intermediaries who became functional necessities
as the railroads accelerated the process of delivering perishable
food to the city. Tracing their rise and decline in the wake of a
deregulated food economy, she asks: How did these people, who
occupied such key roles as food distributors and suppliers to the
retail trade, end up exiled to urban outskirts? Moving into the
early twentieth century, she explains how progressive city planners
and agricultural economists responded to anxieties about the high
cost of living, traffic congestion, and disruptions in the food
supply by questioning the centrality, aging infrastructure, and
organizational structure of wholesale markets. Tangires combines
economic and cultural history by analyzing popular literature,
innovative scholarship, and USDA publications. Detailing the legal,
physical, and organizational means behind the complex exodus of
food wholesaling from the urban core, Tangires also reveals how the
trade adjusted to life beyond the city limits as it created new
channels of distribution, product lines, and markets. Readers
interested in US history, city and regional planning history, food
history, and public policy, as well as anyone curious about the
disappearance of the central produce district as a major component
of the city, will find Movable Markets a fascinating read.
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