Hungry for Revolution

The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile

• Author(s): Joshua Frens-String,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 322
• ISBN_10: 0520974751
  ISBN_13: 9780520974753
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Latin America / South America , Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy , Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations ,

Description:... Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.