(Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging

AvAnne Murcott,Peter Scholliers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations

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Tracing 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-11
Mått:158 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350022119

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Anne 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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Surely the most comprehensive study of food packaging ever written, this book takes us on a breathtaking journey through the history of the most powerful yet neglected marketing device. By paying close attention to the development of an incredible range of technologies - glass, carton, metal and plastic containers; jars, bottles, cans, canisters, and even modified atmosphere packaging - she reveals the incredible depth - material, cultural, sociological - of the most tangible, yet often unseen, market surface, and thus helps us better address the underlying challenges.

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List of Illustrations Preface and AcknowledgementsPart One: Putting Food Packaging Centre Stage1. Ubiquity and (in)visibility2.Food Packaging: a TechnologyPart Two: How Did it Get Like This? Early Precursors3. Bags, Sacks and a lot of Paper4.Barrels, Casks and Tea Chests5. Bottles, Jars and Gallons of Milk6. Canisters, Cans and CanningPart Three: How Did it Get Like This? Industrialised Packaging7. Tomato Ketchup and Transparent Bottles8.Ready Meals, Microwaves and Plastic Trays9. Salad Leaves and Protective AtmospheresPart Four: Where Now?10. Food Packaging - A Trio of Futures and a Provisional EndingReferencesIndex