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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Tompkins, Adam (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
Sujets:
Pesticides > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
Pesticides > Health aspects > United States > History.
Environmental health > United States > Citizen participation > History.
Agricultural laborers > Political activity > United States > History.
Environmentalists > Political activity > United States > History.
Coalitions > United States > History.
Coalitions > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Agricultural laborers > Political activity
Coalitions
Environmental health > Citizen participation
Environmentalists > Political activity
Pesticides > Environmental aspects
Pesticides > Health aspects
United States
Electronic books.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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