School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (Politics and Society in Modern America)

Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentieth-century nutrition science, through the establishment of the National School Lunch Program in 1946, to the transformation of school meals into a poverty program during the 1970s and 1980s. Susan Levine investigates the politics and culture of food; most specifically, who decides what American children should be eating, what policies develop from those decisions, and how these policies might be better implemented.
 Even now, the school lunch program remains problematic, a juggling act between modern beliefs about food, nutrition science, and public welfare. Levine points to the program menus' dependence on agricultural surplus commodities more than on children's nutritional needs, and she discusses the political policy barriers that have limited the number of children receiving meals and which children were served. But she also shows why the school lunch program has outlasted almost every other twentieth-century federal welfare initiative. In the midst of privatization, federal budget cuts, and suspect nutritional guidelines where even ketchup might be categorized as a vegetable, the program remains popular and feeds children who would otherwise go hungry.
 As politicians and the media talk about a national obesity epidemic, School Lunch Politics is a timely arrival to the food policy debates shaping American health, welfare, and equality.

History

Levine, Susan

Americas

Princeton University Press

Arms and shoulders (Fit self-improvement series)

Anderson World Books

Sharing more than a hundred interconnected stories, Susan Levine memorably documents moments in the everyday lives of children who worked in the heart of South Africa's wine industry between 1996 and 2010. The children introduced in the book―if they survived AIDS―are now young adults in a new South Africa that ostensibly offers possibilities for overcoming the shackles of race and class domination. However, as Levine makes clear, in the absence of radical economic restructuring, they are extremely poor adults; the costs of inequality and injustice remain high. South Africa, Levine reminds the reader, though a nation that managed to end the brutality of apartheid, has not managed to replace brutality itself. CONTENTS: 
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<li>Foreword―Andries du Toit.</li> <li>A Brief History of Child Labour in South Africa.</li> <li>The Boys from Aliwal North.</li> <li>Rawsonville.</li> <li>Zwelethemba (Place of Hope).</li> <li>Epilogue.</li> </ul>

Children of a Bitter Harvest: Child Labour in the Cape Winelands

Africa

Best Red, an imprint of HSRC Press

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is one of the nation's oldest and most influential voices for equality in education, the professions, and public life. Tracing the history of the AAUW, Susan Levine provides a new perspective on the meaning of feminism for women in mainstream organizations. In so doing, she explores the problems that women confront and the strategies they have developed to achieve equal rights. By examining the experience of groups like AAUW, Levine suggests that feminism was not so much "reborn" in the 1970s as it was adopted by a rapidly growing constituency of college educated women demanding the realization of their goals.

Degrees of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the Challenge of Twentieth-Century Feminism (Critical Perspectives On The P)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Temple University Press

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