Toxic injustice : a transnational history of exposure and struggle

Toxic injustice : a transnational history of exposure and struggle /

"The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target worm-like, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that it was dangerous, the chemical was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole Ce...

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Main Author: Bohme, Susanna Rankin, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Dibromochloropropane > Toxicology.
Dibromochloropropane > Health aspects > Law and legislation.
Fruit trade > Health aspects > Law and legislation.
Agricultural laborers > Health and hygiene.
Environmental justice.
Insecticides > toxicity.
Propane > analogs & derivatives.
Insecticides > history.
Occupational Exposure.
Social Determinants of Health.
Agricultural Workers' Diseases.
Berufskrankheit.
Dibrompropylphosphate.
Gesundheitsgefährdung.
Globalisierung.
Landarbeit.
Obstbau.
Pestizid.
Soziale Bewegung.
Toxikologie.
Transnationalisierung.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Roots of optimism and anxiety
  • DBCP on the farm
  • Toxic inequalities
  • An inconvenient forum?
  • Making a movement
  • National law, transnational justice?

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