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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota

Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota

Upright, Craig B.

Paperback

AgricultureGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 1517900735
ISBN13: 9781517900731
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Apr 7 2020
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today

Our notions of food co-ops generally don't include images of baseball bat-wielding activists in the aisles. But in May 1975, this was the scene as a Marxist group known as the Co-op Organization took over the People's Warehouse, a distribution center for more than a dozen small cooperative grocery stores in the Minneapolis area. The activist group's goal: to curtail the sale of organic food. The People's Warehouse quickly became one of the principal fronts in the political and social battle that Craig Upright explores in Grocery Activism. The story of the fraught relationship of new-wave cooperative grocery stores to the organic food industry, this book is an instructive case study in the history of activists intervening in capitalist markets to promote social change.

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