This article examines the political economy of nutrition as a state-sponsored strategy to extract greater productivity from industrial workers in both wartime and peacetime. During World War II, the state, together with its munitions-industry allies, broadly considered workers’ nutritional health as a critical component to achieving maximum wartime industrial production. Following the war, both the state and industry imagined the nutritional health of workers’ bodies as crucial to Canada’s postwar prosperity. Facilitating as well as frustrating these largely state-directed nutrition agendas was a combination of medico-scientific knowledge, the sometimes uncertain and unpredictable participation of both employers and workers, and wider natio...
The paper examines nutrition surveys and the reconfiguration of food standards during the World War ...
Traduit du français par Rachel KantrowitzInternational audienceThis article examines the evolution o...
Nations at war have always experienced increased demands for manpower, but in the present conflict t...
Food is a vital component of modern warfare and during the Second World War Canada used its agricult...
I t is a privilege to appear before the State andProvincial Health Authorities of North America in t...
Canadians have achieved unprecedented levels of efficiency in the production and distribution of foo...
Un virage dans les politiques sanitaires au Québec s’amorce avec l’apparition en 1936 d’une Division...
It took a war to teach us how to eat—a war in which food was as vital as bombs for victory. In feedi...
This thesis explores the history of nutrition in Francophone Quebec, between the second half of the ...
This article explores some of the strategies applied by consumers for making-do during the Second Wo...
In this study an attempt is made to outline the most important ways in which the Canadian agricultur...
International audienceThis article is a summary of the results of my research about the statuses of ...
This article explores the relationship between the ways (mainly) outsiders characterized Newfoundlan...
A la suite de la deuxième Grande Guerre, et de la déclaration des hostilités en Corée, de nombreux c...
During the Second World War, Vichy interned thousands of individuals in internment camps. Although m...
The paper examines nutrition surveys and the reconfiguration of food standards during the World War ...
Traduit du français par Rachel KantrowitzInternational audienceThis article examines the evolution o...
Nations at war have always experienced increased demands for manpower, but in the present conflict t...
Food is a vital component of modern warfare and during the Second World War Canada used its agricult...
I t is a privilege to appear before the State andProvincial Health Authorities of North America in t...
Canadians have achieved unprecedented levels of efficiency in the production and distribution of foo...
Un virage dans les politiques sanitaires au Québec s’amorce avec l’apparition en 1936 d’une Division...
It took a war to teach us how to eat—a war in which food was as vital as bombs for victory. In feedi...
This thesis explores the history of nutrition in Francophone Quebec, between the second half of the ...
This article explores some of the strategies applied by consumers for making-do during the Second Wo...
In this study an attempt is made to outline the most important ways in which the Canadian agricultur...
International audienceThis article is a summary of the results of my research about the statuses of ...
This article explores the relationship between the ways (mainly) outsiders characterized Newfoundlan...
A la suite de la deuxième Grande Guerre, et de la déclaration des hostilités en Corée, de nombreux c...
During the Second World War, Vichy interned thousands of individuals in internment camps. Although m...
The paper examines nutrition surveys and the reconfiguration of food standards during the World War ...
Traduit du français par Rachel KantrowitzInternational audienceThis article examines the evolution o...
Nations at war have always experienced increased demands for manpower, but in the present conflict t...