Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry

by Peter Benson

Book Overview

Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization of agriculture, and intense debates over immigration, Peter Benson draws on years of field research to examine the moral and financial struggles of growers, the difficult conditions that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691149208
• ISBN13: 9780691149202
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"