Shane Hamilton will deliver a talk on the theme "Food Politics and the Cost of Living."

About the speaker:

Shane Hamilton is Reader in Strategy, Management and Society at the University of York. He is the author of Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race (Yale, 2018) and award-winning Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008). He is associate editor of Enterprise & Society and co-editor of American Business, Politics, and Society (University of Pennsylvania Press). He is currently the president of the Agricultural History Society and the co-director of the Management Humanities Research Theme at the University of York Management School. Hamilton has published articles on food and agribusiness in Technology & Culture, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, History of Retailing and Consumption, Enterprise & Society, Business History Review, Business History, and Agricultural History.