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Wilted : Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry /
Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation's favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation's favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and other soilborne pests. In Wilted, Julie Guthman tells the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit's production system. The particular conditions of plants, soils, chemicals, climate, and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now changed and become a set of related threats that jeopardize the future of the industry. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780520973343 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610130 9783110606485 9783110652079 9783110667639 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |