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Toxic Injustice Susanna Rankin Bohme

Toxic Injustice By Susanna Rankin Bohme

Toxic Injustice by Susanna Rankin Bohme


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Links health inequalities and worker struggles as it charts how people excluded from workplace and legal protections have found ways to challenge power structures and seek justice from states and transnational corporations alike.

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Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle by Susanna Rankin Bohme

The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that the chemical was dangerous, it was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole banana plantations in Central America. In the late 1970s, DBCP was linked to male sterility, but an uneven regulatory process left many workers especially on Dole's banana farms exposed for years after health risks were known. Susanna Rankin Bohme tells an intriguing, multilayered history that spans fifty years, highlighting the transnational reach of corporations and social justice movements. Toxic Injustice links health inequalities and worker struggles as it charts how people excluded from workplace and legal protections have found ways to challenge power structures and seek justice from states and transnational corporations alike.

Toxic Injustice Reviews

[Bohme] has skillfully brought together an extensive amount of detail from multiple sources... Recommended. -- Byron Anderson Electronic Green Journal An invaluable book. The Journal of American History

About Susanna Rankin Bohme

Susanna Rankin Bohme is Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Roots of Optimism and Anxiety 2. DBCP on the Farm 3. Unequal Exposures 4. An Inconvenient Forum? 5. Making a Movement 6. National Law, Transnational Justice? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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CIN0520278992G
9780520278998
0520278992
Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle by Susanna Rankin Bohme
Used - Good
Paperback
University of California Press
20141205
360
N/A
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