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The confrontation between processors and farm workers in the midwest tomato industry and the role of the agricultural research and extension establishment

The confrontation between processors and farm workers in the midwest tomato industry and the role... The Confrontation Between Processors and Farm Workers in the Midwest Tomato Industry and the Role of the Agricultural Research and Extension Establishment Peter M. Rosset and John H. Vandermeer Peter M. Rosset has a Ph.D. in agricultural ecology from the University of Michigan. In 1986 and early 1987 he was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Advanced Institute for Agricultural Sciences in Managua, Nicaragua. He is cur- rently the coordinator for Costa Rica of the Central Ameri- can Regional IPM Program of the Center for Research and Education on Tropical Agriculture (CATIE). Introduction of the systematic misrepresentation of facts. There is a confrontation between labor and Mechanization benefits processors by eliminat- capital in the processing tomato industry in the ing labor problems (e.g., strikes, boycotts), and Midwestern United States. This conflict is be- perhaps by lowering the cost per ton they must tween migrant farmworkers and processors, potentially pay for tomatoes, but it creates un- with the role of the growers little more than that employment for farmworkers, forces small-scale of foremen or managers on their own land. In growers out of the processing business, and pro- the first part of this paper we elaborate this duces decreased profit http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

The confrontation between processors and farm workers in the midwest tomato industry and the role of the agricultural research and extension establishment

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Springer Journals
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Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
eISSN
1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/BF01530664
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Abstract

The Confrontation Between Processors and Farm Workers in the Midwest Tomato Industry and the Role of the Agricultural Research and Extension Establishment Peter M. Rosset and John H. Vandermeer Peter M. Rosset has a Ph.D. in agricultural ecology from the University of Michigan. In 1986 and early 1987 he was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Advanced Institute for Agricultural Sciences in Managua, Nicaragua. He is cur- rently the coordinator for Costa Rica of the Central Ameri- can Regional IPM Program of the Center for Research and Education on Tropical Agriculture (CATIE). Introduction of the systematic misrepresentation of facts. There is a confrontation between labor and Mechanization benefits processors by eliminat- capital in the processing tomato industry in the ing labor problems (e.g., strikes, boycotts), and Midwestern United States. This conflict is be- perhaps by lowering the cost per ton they must tween migrant farmworkers and processors, potentially pay for tomatoes, but it creates un- with the role of the growers little more than that employment for farmworkers, forces small-scale of foremen or managers on their own land. In growers out of the processing business, and pro- the first part of this paper we elaborate this duces decreased profit

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Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Journals

Published: Apr 5, 2005

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