Craig B Upright Grocery Activism All Books sku-694187270

Craig B Upright's Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota is a hardcover in All Books, sku-694187270. It examines the relationship between new-wave cooperative grocery stores and the organic food industry, focusing on Minnesota and the shift from political activism toward natural and organic foods.

In May 1975, activists from the Marxist Co-op Organization took over the People's Warehouse, which distributed food to more than a dozen small Minneapolis-area co-ops, in an effort to curtail organic food sales. Upright asks why cooperative enterprise and sustainable agriculture came together and examines how co-ops gave social values to the products they sold.

He also describes how co-ops supported one another while trying to remain solvent, improve food purchasing habits, support sustainable agriculture and promote cooperative organizing.