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Wilted

Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry
By Julie Guthman
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics
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Wilted by Julie Guthman explores the complex history and present challenges of California’s strawberry industry, the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state. The book reveals how reliance on toxic soil fumigants to combat pests has shaped the entire production system and highlights the backbreaking labour conditions faced by workers. It critically examines changing environmental, economic, and social factors that now threaten the future of strawberry cultivation in the Golden State.
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Ideal for readers interested in agricultural and environmental sciences, food systems, and social justice, as well as scholars and activists focused on sustainable farming practices and labour rights.

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Guthman tells the story of how California's strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit's production system.

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Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation’s favourite berry. Yet the industry is often criticised for its backbreaking labour 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 labouring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now changed and become a set of related threats that jeopardise the future of the industry.

Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

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Praised as a thorough and well-researched study, the book is noted for its compelling coverage of issues largely unseen by consumers, such as year-round availability and pesticide reliance. Reviews commend its thought-provoking examination of the strawberry industry's geographic, historical, and economic vulnerabilities. It is described as an engrossing, analytically rich work that challenges scholars and policymakers to reconsider approaches to agrarian change.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520305281

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 August 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 21 b-w illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 328

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Education & Reference Julie Guthman Non-Fiction Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

About the Author

Julie Guthman is a geographer and Distinguished Professor in Sociology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her previous books include Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry.

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