Food Worth Fighting For: From Food Riots to Food Banks

by Josh Sutton

Overview

This book takes a look at some of the food riots of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and other food related social conflict in the UK and tells the story of those involved. Using words and verse from contemporary broadside ballads and folk song, which emerged in the years that followed on from events, the author looks closely at the evolution of the modern food system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714524405
Publisher:	Prospect Books
Publication date:	06/30/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Josh Sutton is a freelance writer and illustrator with a focus on food and travel. He writes and illustrates a regular column in Camping Magazine and his features have appeared in The Guardian, The Yorkshire Post, Petits Propos Culinaires and a number of other publications including; Country Walking Magazine, The Big Issue and Green Parent Magazine. His first book, Guyrope Gourmet, came out in 2014.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Preface 9

Introduction A Changing Landscape 21

Chapter 1 March on the Markets the West Country Food Riots of 1766 40

Chapter 2 Against the Grain the Ely and Little Port 'Bread and Beer' Riots of 1816 55

Chapter 3 Captain Swing and the Rage Against the Machine (1830) 70

Chapter 4 The Original Fish Fight the Newlyn Fish Riots of 1896 86

Chapter 5 Plenty More Fish in the Sea the Cod Wars 101

Chapter 6 Not Enough to Go Round Rationing as Crowd Control in a Time of War 107

Chapter 7 The Times They are a Changing the Development of the Modern Food System and the Growing Battle for 'Food Security' 123

Chapter 8 The Rise of the Supermarkets 141

Chapter 9 Food Poverty and Food Charity in Britain Today 147

Chapter 10 Protest and the Rise of the Food Hero 171

Conclusion 189

Bibliography 197

Index 202