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Daniel J. O'Connell

In the Struggle

Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California

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A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial agricultureFrom the early twentieth century and across generations to the present, In the Struggle brings together the stories of eight politically engaged scholars, documenting their opposition to industrial-scale agribusiness in California. As the narrative unfolds, their previously censored and suppressed research, together with personal accounts of intimidation and subterfuge, is introduced into the public arena for the first time. In the Struggle lays out historic, subterranean confrontations over water rights, labor organizing, and the corruption of democratic principles and publi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Peters, Scott J.
  • ISBN: 978-1-61332-122-5
  • EAN: 9781613321225
  • Produktnummer: 32889215
  • Verlag: New Village Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Abbildungen: 48 black and white illustrations

Über den Autor


Daniel J. O'Connell (Author) Daniel O'Connell is executive director of the Central Valley Partnership, a regional nonprofit organization and progressive network of labor unions, environmental organizations, and community groups spanning the San Joaquin Valley. Trained as a multidisciplinary ethnographer, he holds an MS in International Agricultural Development from University of California, Davis, and a PhD in Education from Cornell University. As a politically engaged scholar, his work is dedicated to achieving social, racial, environmental, and economic justice in California.Scott J. Peters (Author) Scott Peters is a professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University and a historian of American higher education's public purposes and work. He has spent the past twenty years as a leader in the civic engagement movement in American higher education, most recently serving as faculty co-director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). He is the author of Democracy and Higher Education: Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement.

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