Revaluing Horticultural Skills : The Knowledge and Labour of Growing Food, Pa...

by Hannah Pitt

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Revaluing Horticultural Skills : The Knowledge and Labour of Growing Food, Paperback by Pitt, Hannah, ISBN 1032251212, ISBN-13 9781032251219, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation. It examines the difficulties that arise from the perception that this type of activity is unskilled and the importance of acknowledging the expertise involved in growing food. Th provides a rare focus on horticulture as a vital part of agri-food systems, offering a social science perspective on the sector’s current and past characteristics. It presents new primary research into horticultural work and workers across UK food growing, using close attention to their abilities to highlight the depth of their knowledge and learning. This is set in the context of global agri-food regimes which press producers to seek ever more precarious labour, undermining food justice. By examining these in the context of internationally connected supply chains, it characterises injustices which recur globally and across food system labour. The conceptual argument starts from an ecological definition of skill as a social practice embedded within its socio-economic landscape, developing this perspective beyond its association with artisanal contexts. Together the empirical and conceptual materials highlight the fallacy of discourse which tends to individualise skill and the challenges around recruitment into food productio

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN: 9781032251219
• Condition: Fine

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