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In the Struggle - Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California (Paperback)
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In the Struggle - Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California (Paperback)
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A call to action in an ongoing battle against industrial
agriculture From 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 public institutions. As California’s rural economy
increasingly consolidates into the hands of land barons and
corporations, the scholars’ work shifts from analyzing problems
and formulating research methods to organizing resistance and
building community power. Throughout their engagement, they face
intense political blowback as powerful economic interests work to
pollute and undermine scientific inquiry and the civic purposes of
public universities. The findings and the pressure put upon the
work of these scholars—Paul Taylor, Ernesto Galarza, and Isao
Fujimoto among them—are a damning indictment of the greed and
corruption that flourish under industrial-scale agriculture. After
almost a century of empirical evidence and published research, a
definitive finding becomes clear: land consolidation and economic
monopoly are fundamentally detrimental to democracy and the
well-being of rural societies.
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