Ghostworkers and Greens : The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform /

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Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tompkins, Adam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pesticides > Health aspects.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects.
Environmentalists > Political activity.
Environmental health > Citizen participation.
Coalitions.
Agricultural laborers > Political activity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Coalitions > États-Unis > Histoire.
Coalitions > United States > History.
Environmentalists > Political activity > United States > History.
Agricultural laborers > Political activity > United States > History.
Environmental health > United States > Citizen participation > History.
Pesticides > Health aspects > United States > History.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sowing the seeds of American agriculture's chemical dependency
  • Hidden hands of the harvest
  • The budding movement for pesticide reform, 1962-1972
  • Movements in transition : environmentalists, farmworkers, and the regulatory state, 1970-1976
  • A different kind of border war in Arizona, 1971-1986
  • Resisting rollbacks in California, 1982-1990
  • From the ground up : fumigants, ozone, health.

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