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Author Gray, Margaret, 1968-

Title Labor and the locavore : the making of a comprehensive food ethic / Margaret Gray.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Labor and the Locavore; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Is Local Food an Ethical Alternative?; 1 Agrarianism and Hudson Valley Agriculture; 2 The Workers: Labor Conditions, Paternalism, and Immigrant Stories; 3 The Farmers: Challenges of the Small Business; 4 Sustainable Jobs? Ethnic Succession and the New Latinos; 5 Toward a Comprehensive Food Ethic; Methodological Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, and saving small farms at the forefront of their attention. Yet amid this turn to wholesome and responsible food choices, the lives and working conditions of farmworkers are often an afterthought. Labor and the Locavore focuses on one of the most vibrant local food economies in the country, the Hudson Valley that supplies New York restaurants and farmers markets. Based on more than a decade's in-depth interviews with workers, farmers, and others, G.
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Subject Agricultural laborers -- Abuse of -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Agricultural laborers -- Abuse of.
Agricultural laborers -- Employment -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Agricultural laborers -- Employment.
Agricultural laborers.
Labor policy -- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Labor policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gray, Margaret, 1968- Labor and the locavore. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] xi, 225 pages 9780520276673 9780520276697 (DLC) 2013011414
ISBN 9780520957060 (electronic book)
0520957067 (electronic book)
9780520276673 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520276697 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9781299974586
1299974589
0520276671
0520276698