Levine School Lunch Politics

The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4148-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 69, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Politics and Society in Modern America

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Levine, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables vii

Acknowledgments ix

INTRODUCTION: The Politics of Lunch 1

CHAPTER 1: A Diet for Americans 10

The Search for a Scientific Diet 12

A Diet for Americans 23

Nutrition and Malnutrition 29

School Lunch as Public Policy 33

CHAPTER 2: Welfare for Farmers and Children 39

School Lunches for Hungry Children 40

Eating the Surplus 45

The Institutionalization of School Lunch 49

CHAPTER 3: Nutrition Standards and Standard Diets 54

School Lunch Standards 54

Nutrition in the National Defense 60

Eating Democracy 66

CHAPTER 4: A National School Lunch Program 71

Agriculture or Education? 73

The Liberal Compromise 76

Discrimination and Segregation 82

CHAPTER 5: Ideals and Realities in the Lunchroom 89

Nutrition and Surplus Commodities 91

Nutrition and the Food Service Industry 95

The Limits of the Lunchroom 98

CHAPTER 6: No Free Lunch 105

Discovering Hunger in America 106

Agriculture or Welfare? 108

Food and the Poverty Line 120

CHAPTER 7: A Right to Lunch 127

The Free Lunch Mandate 128

The Women's Campaign 130

School Lunch and Civil Rights 136

Eligibility Standards and the Right to Lunch 142

CHAPTER 8: Let Them Eat Ketchup 151

Who Pays for Free Lunch? 152

Combo Meals and Nutrition Standards 163

Ketchup and Other Vegetables 171

EPILOGUE Fast Food and Poor Children 179

Notes 193

Index 243

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Levine is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Labor's True Woman and Degrees of Equality.