The Intimate Commodity Food and the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex in Canada

Preface

Introduction: Production, Consumption, and Power in the Food Economy

Part I: The Producers and their Struggle for Power

1. Building Solidarity: The Significance of Early Farm Organizations

2. The Role of Farmers' Parties: A New Form of Power

3. The CCF: A Lasting Political Vehicle

4. The Institutionalization of Agrarian Power

Part II: The Agribusiness Complex: A New Locus of Power

5. Corporate Concentration in the Early 20th Century

6. Consolidation of the Canadian Agro-Food Complex

7. Food Retailers: The New Masters of the Food System

8. Restructuring and Crisis in the Canadian Food System

9. Conclusion

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index