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Manufacturing Green Gold: Capital, Labor, and Technology in the Lettuce Industry

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Manufacturing Green Gold: Capital, Labor, and Technology in the Lettuce Industry - Friedland, William H., and Barton, Amy E., and Thomas, Robert J.
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Originally published in 1981, this book examines the ways in which social groups interact in the making of a common food in American society: iceberg lettuce. The major questions posed by the research, however, extend beyond the features of one agricultural product, as the authors analyse the organization of industrial production. The goal of the text is the integration of the analysis of social systems involving agricultural production with a broader body of theory and research concerned with production. The major ...

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Manufacturing Green Gold: Capital, Labor, and Technology in the Lettuce Industry 1981, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521285841

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