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The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma
by Angus Wright
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University of Texas Press (1992)
ISBN: 0292715668
EAN: 9780292715660
Dewey Decimal #: 630
Binding/Media: Paperback - 359 pages
SKU: T092105-7864
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
"The Death of Ramón Gonzalez is a blockbuster. In a dramatic, readable story, Wright has provided a new way of looking at the tragic human and environmental consequences of chemical-dependent agriculture. His case study of the Mexican export vegetable industry and of migrant farmworkers shows how what we call 'agricultural development' is really a headlong rush toward ecological catastrophe. His synthesis of the thoughts and experiments of those working for alternatives makes a major new contribution. " --Wes Jackson, The Land Institute "[Wright's] concern is for the victimized men, women, and children in a beautiful land, living and working in a cloud of toxins of which they have no understanding. If this story has any lasting effect on Mexico's environmental policies, the death of Ramón Gonzalez may prove to have been weightier than the usual statistic. " --Audubon . . . competitive in a class with Barry Commoner's The Closing Circle or Rachael Carson's Silent Spring in vividly drawing attention to the destructive, unsustainable logic behind much of modern agricultural practices, particularly in developing countries like Mexico. " --Stephen P. Mumme, associate professor of political science, Colorado State University
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Customer Reviews
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Amazon comes through
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-01
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
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A true heart-wrenching occupational health story
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-04-29
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
This story details how people suffer and die from the repressive labor practices of pesticide-addicted agribusiness. It should give pause to people eating foods produced and harvested in places whose labor practices are known to be repressive. It should spur support for "fairly-traded" foods and also should spur investigations into the activities of agribusinesses using pesticides but probably won't because the power these corporations have over people and political systems continues to increase. This should be considered essential reading for anyone working in the areas of public health and occupational health. It is a modern but 'classic' occupational health story, which illustrates again, that when workers are repressed, forced by economic circumstances to accept their working conditions as their employers dictate, significant health problems follow. And the long screw of history keeps on turning...
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