Binding: Paperback
Description: Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth - highest - grossing crop in the state which produces 88 percent of the nation's favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and other soilborne pests. In Wilted Julie Guthman tells the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit's production system. The particular conditions of plants soils chemicals climate and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now changed and become a set of related threats that jeopardize the future of the industry.
Title: Wilted Pathogens Chemicals And The Fragile Future Of The Strawberry Industry
Author(s): Guthman Julie
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520305281
Pages: 328 Pages, 21 B-W Illustrations
Publication Date: 8/20/2019
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
Category: Food & Society