Hungry for Revolution

Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chiles Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin Americas most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chiles most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the states efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.