Ghostworkers and greens : the cooperative campaigns of farmworkers and environmentalists for pesticide reform / Adam Tompkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tompkins, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pesticides--Environmental aspects--United States--History.

Pesticides.

Pesticides--Health aspects--United States--History.

Environmental health--United States--Citizen participation--History.

Environmental health.

Agricultural laborers--Political activity--United States--History.

Agricultural laborers.

Environmentalists--Political activity--United States--History.

Environmentalists.

Coalitions--United States--History.

Coalitions.

Agricultural laborers--Political activity.

Environmental health--Citizen participation.

Environmentalists--Political activity.

Pesticides--Environmental aspects.

Pesticides--Health aspects.

History.

Political participation.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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. For nearly fifty years, these groups served as educators, communicating to the public scientific and experiential information about the adverse effects of pesticides on human health and the environment, and built support for the amendment of pesticide policies and the alteration of pesticide use practices. Their efforts led to the passage of more stringent regulations to better protect farmworkers, the public, and the environment. Environmental organizations and farmworker groups also acted as watchdogs, monitoring the activity of regulatory agencies and bringing suit when necessary to ensure that they fulfilled their responsibilities to the public. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-219) and index.

ISBN:

9780801456688

0801456681

9781501704482

1501704486

OCLC:

927619581