The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma

by Angus Lindsay Wright

Book Overview

The Death of Ramon Gonzalez is a blockbuster. In a dramatic, readable story, Wright has provided a new way of looking at the tragic human and environmental consequences of chemical-dependent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292715668
• ISBN13: 9780292715660
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A true heart-wrenching occupational health story

This story details how people suffer and die from the repressive labor practices of pesticide-addicted agribusiness. It should give pause to people eating foods produced and harvested in places whose labor practices are known to be repressive. It should spur support for "fairly-traded" foods and also should spur investigations into the activities of agribusinesses using pesticides but probably won't because the power these corporations have over people and political systems continues to increase. This should be considered essential reading for anyone working in the areas of public health and occupational health. It is a modern but 'classic' occupational health story, which illustrates again, that when workers are repressed, forced by economic circumstances to accept their working conditions as their employers dictate, significant health problems follow. And the long screw of history keeps on turning...