FS 306 - The History of the Food Industry

3 cr.

This course is designed to explore the history of the food industry; agriculture; food production; labor movements; and the restaurant industry. The course will also look at the history of the food industry in Louisiana, the impact it made both nationally and internationally . How did the United States go from a Jeffersonian ideal of agrarian reform to industrialization? What role did slavery, sharecropping and migrant labor play in building systems and wealth in the United States? What role did Louisiana play in the commercialization of food products?