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Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry

By Julie Guthman

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780520973343
DOI
10.1525/9780520973343
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37311240 bytes)
Series
Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics; 6
Pages
328\323
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 17:44:46

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.

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