The Resource Tobacco capitalism : growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry, Peter Benson ; foreword by Allan M. Brandt
Tobacco capitalism : growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry, Peter Benson ; foreword by Allan M. Brandt
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The item Tobacco capitalism : growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry, Peter Benson ; foreword by Allan M. Brandt represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- "Tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization of agriculture, and intense debates over immigration, Peter Benson draws on years of field research to examine the moral and financial struggles of growers, the difficult conditions that affect Mexican migrant workers, and the complex politics of citizenship and economic decline in communities dependent on this most harmful commodity. Benson tracks the development of tobacco farming since the plantation slavery period and the formation of a powerful tobacco industry presence in North Carolina. In recent decades, tobacco companies that sent farms into crisis by aggressively switching to cheaper foreign leaf have coached growers to blame the state, public health, and aggrieved racial minorities for financial hardship and feelings of vilification. Economic globalization has exacerbated social and racial tensions in North Carolina, but the corporations that benefit from it have rarely been considered a key cause of harm and instability, and have now adopted social-responsibility platforms to elide liability for smoking disease. Parsing the nuances of history, power, and politics in rural America, Benson explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control movement in the United States and worldwide."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages)
- Contents
-
- Part I. The Tobacco Industry, Public Health, and Agrarian Change: Most admired company
- The jungle
- Enemies of tobacco; Part II Innocence and blame in American society: Good, clean tobacco
- El campo
- Sorriness
- Isbn
- 9781283280693
- Label
- Tobacco capitalism : growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry
- Title
- Tobacco capitalism
- Title remainder
- growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Benson ; foreword by Allan M. Brandt
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital
- Business
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- North America
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- North Carolina -- Social conditions
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- Social conditions
- Antismoking movement -- Social aspects -- North Carolina
- Tobacco farmers -- North Carolina -- Social conditions
- Tobacco industry -- Social aspects
- Tobacco industry -- Social aspects -- North Carolina
- Tobacco workers -- North Carolina -- Social conditions
- North Carolina
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization of agriculture, and intense debates over immigration, Peter Benson draws on years of field research to examine the moral and financial struggles of growers, the difficult conditions that affect Mexican migrant workers, and the complex politics of citizenship and economic decline in communities dependent on this most harmful commodity. Benson tracks the development of tobacco farming since the plantation slavery period and the formation of a powerful tobacco industry presence in North Carolina. In recent decades, tobacco companies that sent farms into crisis by aggressively switching to cheaper foreign leaf have coached growers to blame the state, public health, and aggrieved racial minorities for financial hardship and feelings of vilification. Economic globalization has exacerbated social and racial tensions in North Carolina, but the corporations that benefit from it have rarely been considered a key cause of harm and instability, and have now adopted social-responsibility platforms to elide liability for smoking disease. Parsing the nuances of history, power, and politics in rural America, Benson explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control movement in the United States and worldwide."--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1979-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Benson, Peter
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Tobacco workers
- Migrant agricultural laborers
- Tobacco farmers
- Tobacco industry
- Antismoking movement
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- HISTORY
- Migrant agricultural laborers
- Tobacco industry
- North Carolina
- Antismoking movement
- Migrant agricultural laborers
- Tobacco farmers
- Tobacco industry
- Tobacco workers
- Business
- Label
- Tobacco capitalism : growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry, Peter Benson ; foreword by Allan M. Brandt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. The Tobacco Industry, Public Health, and Agrarian Change: Most admired company -- The jungle -- Enemies of tobacco; Part II Innocence and blame in American society: Good, clean tobacco -- El campo -- Sorriness
- Control code
- ocn763157232
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781283280693
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 328069
- 22573/cttwr9z
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)763157232
- Label
- Tobacco capitalism : growers, migrant workers, and the changing face of a global industry, Peter Benson ; foreword by Allan M. Brandt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. The Tobacco Industry, Public Health, and Agrarian Change: Most admired company -- The jungle -- Enemies of tobacco; Part II Innocence and blame in American society: Good, clean tobacco -- El campo -- Sorriness
- Control code
- ocn763157232
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 323 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781283280693
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 328069
- 22573/cttwr9z
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)763157232
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital
- Business
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- North America
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- North Carolina -- Social conditions
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- Social conditions
- Antismoking movement -- Social aspects -- North Carolina
- Tobacco farmers -- North Carolina -- Social conditions
- Tobacco industry -- Social aspects
- Tobacco industry -- Social aspects -- North Carolina
- Tobacco workers -- North Carolina -- Social conditions
- North Carolina
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