The Hamlet Factory Fire and the Political Economy of Poultry in the Twentieth Century
Patrick Michael Dixon (Author), Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University (Degree granting institution)
My dissertation addresses the production and consumption of poultry in the United States in the twentieth century. The project combines the fields of labor and economic development with studies of food and cultural history. In examining the transition from a pastoral activity primarily concerned with egg production at the turn of the 1900s to a colossal industry that remained centered in the provinces, it explains two transitions at the center of the American diet; the growing shift from red to white meats as the primary form of protein, and the rise of processed convenience foods
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2015