The Death of Ramón González: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma

by Angus Lindsay Wright

Book Overview

The Death of Ram n Gonz lez has become a benchmark book since its publication in 1990. It has been taught in undergraduate and graduate courses in every social science discipline, sustainable and alternative agriculture, environmental studies, ecology, ethnic studies, public health, and Mexican, Latin American, and environmental history. The book has also been used at the University of California-Santa Cruz as a model of interdisciplinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292712685
• ISBN13: 9780292712683
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A true heart-wrenching occupational health story

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...