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• The End of Economic Growth (2006), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Selling Mrs. Consumer (New York: The Business Bourse, 1929), by Christine Frederick (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Increasing Home Efficiency (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Martha Bensley Bruère and Robert W. Bruère (page images at Google; US access only)
• Midas Gold, by Butterick Publishing Company (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• Assessing Changing Food Consumption Patterns, by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Relation Of Wages To The Cost Of Living In Los Angeles, 1915 to 1920 (Los Angeles: Southern California Sociological Society, University of Southern California, 1921), by Hazal M. Liggett (page images at Harvard)

• Wage-Earners' Budgets: A Study of Standards and Cost of Living in New York City (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1907), by Louise Bolard More, contrib. by Franklin Henry Giddings (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Making Both Ends Meet: The Income and Outlay of New York Working Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Pricing Decisions in Small Business (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by W. Warren Haynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• International Socialist Congress of Vienna (August 23-29, 1914), Documents, 2nd Commission: The High Cost of Living, by Otto Bauer (PDF at fes.de)
• La Carestia de la Vida (v. 1, no. 5 of Accion Socialista; in Spanish; 1919), by Nicolás Repetto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Relation Of Wages To The Cost Of Living In Los Angeles, 1915 to 1920 (Los Angeles: Southern California Sociological Society, University of Southern California, 1921), by Hazal M. Liggett (page images at Harvard)

• The American Woman Abroad (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered, in Three Parts (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by David Davies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wages, Welfare Costs, and Inflation in Classical Athens (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by William T. Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)

• How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger (with additional foreword; c1986), by Susan George (PDF with commentary at tni.org)

• Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), ed. by Bhaskar Vira, Christoph Wildburger, and Stephanie Mansourian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Haa Atxaayi Haa Kusteeyix Sitee; Our Food is Our Tlingit Way of Life: Excerpts of Oral Interviews (third edition; Juneau: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Alaska Region, 2006), by Richard G. Newton and Madonna Moss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2009), by Karim-Aly S. Kassam (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Agriculture Handbook (partial serial archives)
• Agriculture Information Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 (c2007), by Sarah A. Gordon (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875-1900 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2001), by Amelia Peck and Carol Irish (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 (c2007), by Sarah A. Gordon (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945 (originally published 1989; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Phyllis M. Palmer, contrib. by Vanessa H. May (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
• "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 (c2007), by Sarah A. Gordon (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 (c2007), by Sarah A. Gordon (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Behind the Scenes in Candy Factories (1928), by Consumers' League of New York City (page images at LOC)

• The Federation Cook Book: A Collection of Tested Recipes, Contributed by the Colored Women of the State of California (ca. 1910), by Bertha L. Turner, contrib. by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman and Kate Mann Baker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Federation Cook Book: A Collection of Tested Recipes, Contributed by the Colored Women of the State of California (2007 reprint of the 1910 edition), by Bertha L. Turner, contrib. by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman and Kate Mann Baker (multiple formats at Google)

• Bohemian San Francisco, Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes: The Elegant Art of Dining (1914), by Clarence E. Edwords (Gutenberg text)

• Lutheran Aid Recipes (Abilene, KS: Reflector Print, 1928), by Ladies of Trinity Lutheran Church, Abilene, Kansas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Blue Grass Cook Book (New York: Fox, Duffield and Co., 1904), by Minnie C. Fox (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• A Book of Famous Old New Orleans Recipes Used in the South for More Than 200 Years (New Orleans: Printed for the Free French Movement, c1900)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Recipes of the Month: Famous Foods from Famous Places in the Minneapolis Area (looseleaf edition; 1953), by Minneapolis Gas Company Home Service Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• "Golden Links" Cook Book: Up to Date Recipes (Milne Library reprint; originally published for the Methodist Episcopal Church of Perry, NY, 1907), ed. by Mrs. W. H. McClelland (PDF with commentary at geneseo.edu)

• The Genesee Valley Cookbook (Milne Library reprint; originally published 1905), by Angelina Jenkins Mumford (PDF with commentary at geneseo.edu)

• How We Cook in Tennessee (Jackson, TN: Silver Thimble Society of the First Baptist Church, c1906), by Silver Thimble Society (page images at Google; US access only)

• The Virginia Housewife: or, Methodical Cook (Baltimore: Plaskitt and Cugle, 1838), by Mary Randolph (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• Washington Women's Cook Book (Seattle: Washington Equal Suffrage Association, 1909), ed. by Linda Deziah Jennings (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• Betty's Scrapbook of Little Recipes for Little Cooks, Saved from Wisconsin Agriculturist and Farmer (1930s), by Betty Dahlberg (searchable page images at Wisconsin)

• Agriculture Handbook (partial serial archives)
• Agriculture Information Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Agricultural Commodities as Industrial Raw Materials (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Perspectives on 21st Century Agriculture: A Tribute to Walter J. Armbruster (Oak Brook, IL: Farm Foundation, c2007), ed. by Ronald D. Knutson, Sharron D. Knutson, and David P. Ernstes (PDF at AgEcon Search)

• The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans (1995; last edited 2005), by Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (U.S.) (HTML at fda.gov)
• Perspectives on Retail Food Grading (1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans (1995; last edited 2005), by Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (U.S.) (HTML at fda.gov)
• Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Living Spaces (New York: Whitney Publications, 1952), ed. by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost: Being a Collection of Country and Suburban Homes in Good Taste, With Some Value in Suggestion for the Home-Builder (New York: McBride, Winston and Co., 1910), ed. by Henry H. Saylor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.