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Author:
Tompkins, Adam, author.
Title:
Ghostworkers and greens : the cooperative campaigns of farmworkers and environmentalists for pesticide reform / Adam Tompkins.
Publisher:
ILR Pressan imprint of Cornell University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Pesticides--History.--United States--History.
Pesticides--History.--United States--History.
Environmental health--United States--History.--History.
Agricultural laborers--History.--United States--History.
Environmentalists--History.--United States--History.
Coalitions--United States--History.
History.
Agricultural laborers--Political activity.
Coalitions.
Environmental health--Citizen participation.
Environmentalists--Political activity.
Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
Pesticides--Health aspects.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-219) and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
1501704486
9781501704482
0801456681
9780801456688
OCLC:
(OCoLC)927619581
LCCN:
2015042511
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)
OPAX566 -- Southeastern Community College - Keokuk - Fred Karre Memorial Library (Keokuk)

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