Environmental Justice and Farm Labor

Rebecca E. Berkey is Director of Service-Learning, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, and Associate Director, Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, USA.

"In this book, Rebecca Berkey has made an important contribution to the growing literature on farm labor movements in the United States. She analyzes the historical and current day injustices experienced by farmworkers, aptly arguing that farm labor is an issue of environmental as well as social justice. It is a book that will resonate with all scholars, students, activists, and consumers who want to make big changes to the food system." - Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Assistant Professor, Food Studies, Syracuse University, NY, USA"Environmental Justice and Farm Labor examines environmental justice issues facing farmworkers in the United States. A growing scholarship has critically documented the injustices facing the low-wage, immigrant workers who do the bulk of the work in U.S. agriculture, and this book introduces the reader to these findings in an accessible way. The conclusion’s catalogue of organizations working for farmworker justice will be a valuable resource for readers wanting to get politically active beyond their food purchases and support organizations already doing this important work." - Jill Lindsey Harrison, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA"Berkey opens new lines of inquiry for two scholarly fields that don’t usually overlap so comprehensively. She persuasively shows how farmworkers are frontline casualties of not only labor exploitation, but also environmental injustice." - Margaret Gray, Associate Professor, Political Science, Adelphi University, USA

• Introduction: Environmental Justice and Farm Labor 1. Environmental Justice and Framing Labor in Agriculture as a Justice Issue 2. Justice Issues Facing Laborers in Agriculture 3. A Brief History of and Impact of Policy on Laborers in US Agriculture 4. Case Study in Conventional Agriculture: The Farmworker Association of Florida 5. Case Study in Organic Agriculture: The Northeast Organic Farming Association 6. The Current Landscape of Change: Fighting for Justice for Agricultural Labor 7. Conclusion: What Will It Take to Change the Story?