Privatizing farm worker justice: Regulating labor through voluntary certification and labeling

Geoforum

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1184-1196

  Brown, Sandy ^a   Getz, Christy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; California; Certification; Farm labor; Governance; Neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CERTIFICATION; ECOLABELING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POWER RELATIONS; PRIVATIZATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42649136910     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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