Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Second Edition

by Deborah Barndt

Book Overview

Where does our food come from? Whose hands have planted, cultivated, picked, packed, processed, transported, scanned, sold, sliced, and cooked it? What production practices have transformed it from seed to fruit, from fresh to processed form? Who decides what is grown and how? What are the effects of those decisions on our health and the health of the planet? Tangled Routes tackles these fascinating questions and demystifies globalization by tracing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742555577
• ISBN13: 9780742555570
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.0"