Agriculture

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0292715609 . B&W Illustrations; Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Green cloth covered boards have silver gilt lettering to spine of book. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a plain cream color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping & rubbing. White and green dust jacket has some lightish, but noticeable rubbing and there is one small edge tear to top front edge. Overall, a very good+ copy. "According to conservative estimates, worldwide each year thousands of farm workers die and hundreds of thousands become ill due to acute pesticide poisoning. Ramon Gonzalez was one of thses, and his needless death provides a useful starting place to chart the medical, environmental, economic, and political consequences of massive pesticide use in Mexico." . more information

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