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 Food Industry  Birth Of An Industry Gustavus Swift Website: http://www.bookrags.com/biography/gustavus-franklin-swift/ Philip Armour Website: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1724.html

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[] Gustavus Swift: Who: Gustavus Swift What: Head of large American corporation that shipped meat across the country. Brought refrigeration to meat packaging. Where: Chicago area When: Around 1865 Why: To be able to ship meat across the country without it going bad. How: Vertical Integration and refrigerated railroad cars. Effect: Grew meat packaging industry throughout the country.

Gustavus Swift revolutionized the meat packaging industry by utilizing refrigerated railroad cars. He also used vertical integration and had cost controls at his plants to become successful. Swift based his industry mainly in Chicago, the place where he spent most of his life. Swift earned his fortune mainly by packing and shipping meat east with refrigerated railroad cars. Doing this, Swift became one of the most wealthy, successful, and popular people in the food industry. Philip Armour: Who: Philip Armour What: Built Chicago's largest meat packaging company. Where: Chicago area When: Around 1865 Why: Chicago's Union Stock Yard convinced him that the future of meat packaging was in the city. How: He purchased land, began to package hogs, built a large pork plant, added dressed beef, meat canning, and the manufacture of oleomargarine, glue, fertilizer, and other byproducts. Effect: Grew meat packaging industry throughout the country.

Philip Armour was a huge influence in the meat packaging industry. He made one of the biggest meat packaging industries in America. He developed new technology and thought of better distribution methods. He started off by making his own hog-packing centers, then started working in larger industries. He basically was responsible for the developing of the meat packaging industry. When he died he was worth around $50,000,000!

Nicolas Appert was one of the main developers of the canning process.

Labor Relations ** Working Conditions : Tough, payed very little, high percentage of injury. Work in large packaging plants or smaller slaughterhouses. **
 * Company Towns : Chicago and Kansas City. **
 * Strikes : Meat packers cut the workers wages which led to the workers going on strike.

Growth of An Industry Coca-Cola  **__Innovations and Improvments:__ They added cabonated water to make coca-cola better. Started advertising in The Atlanta Journal and other local businesses. Moved business into factories and plants. __Changes over time:__ Creator of Coca-Cola, John Stith Pemberton died. Prices increased along with revenue. __New Leaders and Companies:__ Asa G. Candler buys part of business just before death of John Pemberton. John S. Candler and Frank Robinson were partners with Asa. __Government Regulations:__ The Pure Food and Drug Act was created to prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of misbranded or poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors. The Meat Inspection Act stated that all animals had to pass inspection prior to being slaughtered, all carcasses were subject to post-mortem inspection, and cleanliness standards were established for slaughterhouses and processing plants. Pure Food and Drug Act Website: http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst203/documents/pure.html The Meat Inspection Act Website: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h918.html

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Food Industry Today
 * __How's it going today__**: Industry is on the rise and there are more and more businesses each day. The industry hasn't been effected by the fall of the economy so far.
 * __Major Companies and Corporations__**: Pepsi, Coke, Campbells, Armour.
 * __Jobs Available__**: Restaurant workers, chefs, distributors, wholesalers, market workers, transporters, etc.
 * __Average Money Made__**: Average pay of food industry workers is $47,000.
 * __Prospects or future__**: Food Industry wants to increase business and make more machines to make life easier.

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Questions: 1. How much money does an average food industry worker make in a year? 2. In which city did the food industry mainly start? 3. Why did the meat packers go on strike? 4. Why did Coca-Cola's industry keep getting better and better? 5. What do you think would happen to the world if the food industry fell along with the economy?.