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Adam Tompkins - Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform - 9780801456688 - V9780801456688
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Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform

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Description for Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JPWH; KNXB; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.

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 history of unexpected cooperation between farmworker groups and environmental organizations. Tompkins shows that the separate movements shared a common concern about the effects of pesticides on human health. This enabled bridge-builders within the disparate organizations to foster cooperative relationships around issues of mutual concern to share information, resources, and support.Nongovernmental organizations, particularly environmental organizations and farmworker groups, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801456688
SKU
V9780801456688
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About Adam Tompkins
Adam Tompkins is Assistant Professor of History at Lakeland College Japan in Tokyo.

Reviews for Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
Adam Tompkins provides a useful addition to the literature on alliances between environmentalists and workers in this study documenting the shifting coalitions between greens and farmworkers to fight pesticide poisoning in the Southwest and Florida. Noting that neither movement could defeat the agricultural and chemical lobbies on their own, he argues "that bridge-builders transcended differences between organizations and ably negotiated ... Read more

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