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"Nuggets of Gold offers a new interpretation of the place of industrial food production, consumption, and conceptions of eating and health within the contemporary American died by explaining the origins, development, and ultimately the success of further processed chicken meals. Patrick Dixon illuminates how McDonald's Chicken McNugget-the flagship product of further processed chicken-achieved symbolic status as an instructive item within the American diet. But, for reasons that were different from those commonly identified by critics. In his multilayered approach, Dixon also connects the inextricable intertwined stories of workers and industrialists with restauranteurs and consumers-the former geographically moored within the South and the latter divers and nationwide. In so doing, he reveals the complex interdependency of American Chicken and the American South"--
About the author
PATRICK DIXON is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, the managing editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, and a founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. He graduated from Georgetown University with a doctoral degree in history in 2015. Dixon is originally from Dorset in the United Kingdom. His interest in the themes represented in this book is in part the product of his own experiences growing up in a rural community and working in a wide variety of hourly jobs, including in the restaurant and leisure sectors.
