Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail

by Deborah Barndt

Book Overview

Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, Tangled Routes offers a vivid interdisciplinary examination of the global food system through the journey of a corporate tomato. Through case studies in the three NAFTA countries-Mexico, the United States, and Canada-Deborah Barndt examines the dynamic relationships between production and consumption, work and technology, biodiversity and cultural diversity, and health and environment. The compelling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742555577
• ISBN13: 9780742555570
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.0"