Full Description
This book explores the well-being of Latinx farmworkers living and laboring in the United States. The contributions take a deeper look at the lived experiences of farmworkers. The chapters explore the various ways in which well-being is framed in diverse academic disciplines, and how the concept of well-being has been employed in previous research on Latinx farmworkers. This volume appeals to students, researchers and professionals.
Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 37, issue 1, March 2020
Chapters Governance for global stewardship: can private certification move beyond commodification in fostering sustainability transformations? and Constructing freshness: the vitality of wet markets in urban China are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Contents
Gluten aversion is not limited to the political left.- What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR.- "Modern" farming and the transformation of livelihoods in rural Tanzania.- Density of resident farmers and rural inhabitants' relationship to agriculture: operationalizing complex social interactions with a structural equation model.- Governance for global stewardship: can private certification move beyond commodification in fostering sustainability transformations?.- Plastic scraps: biodegradable mulch films and the aesthetics of 'good farming' in US specialty crop production.- Moral conflicts, premises and the social dimension of agricultural sustainability.- Malign and benign neglect: a local food system and the myth of sustainable redevelopment in Appalachia Ohio.- "Going local": farmers' perspectives on local food systems in rural Canada.- Women farmers in developed countries: a literature review.- Responding to the problem of 'food security' in animal cruelty policy debates: building alliances between animal-centred and human-centred work on food system issues.- Constructing freshness: the vitality of wet markets in urban China.- Introduction to the symposium: Bienestar—the well-being of Latinx farmworkers in a time of change.- Using chiles and comics to address the physical and emotional wellbeing of farmworkers in Vermont's borderlands.- Food provisioning strategies among Latinx farm workers in southwestern Idaho.- Health by mail: mail order medication practices of Latinx dairy worker households on the northern US border.- Migrant farmworker injury: temporality, statistical representation, eventfulness.- Correction to: Migrant farmworker injury: temporality, statistical representation, eventfulness.- Mark Schapiro: Seeds of resistance—the fight to save our food supply.- Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Aijuan Chen (eds): Organic food and farming in China: top-down and bottom-up ecological initiatives.- Peter Dauvergne: Will big business destroy the planet?.- Erin McKenna: Livestock: food, fiber, and friends.- Maria J. Veri and Rita Liberti: Gridiron gourmet: gender and food at the football tailgate.- Books Received.
