Ghostworkers and Greens : : The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform / / Adam Tompkins.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Confronting the Consequences of the Pesticide Paradigm
- 1. Sowing the Seeds of Chemical Dependency
- 2. Hidden Hands of the Harvest
- 3. The Budding Movement for Pesticide Reform, 1962–1972
- 4. Movements in Transition: Environmentalists, Farmworkers, and the Regulatory State, 1970–1976
- 5. A Different Kind of Border War: Arizona, 1971–1986
- 6. Resisting Rollbacks: California, 1982–1990
- 7. From the Ground Up: Fumigants, Ozone, and Health
- Diversity and Unity in the Pesticide Reform Movement
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index