Revaluing Horticultural Skills - The Knowledge and Labour of Growing Food

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: The value of horticultural work
Chapter 2 Global horticulture: Growing cheap food and precarious work
Chapter 3 The roots of "unskilled" work in UK horticulture
Chapter 4 Who picks for Britain?
Chapter 5 Knowing good growing
Chapter 6 Becoming a good grower
Chapter 7 The health of horticulture's skills ecosystems
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Revaluing horticultural work and workers together
References

About the author

Hannah Pitt is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography at Cardiff University's School of Geography and Planning, where she specialises in researching and teaching food system sustainability, with a focus on human-plant relations.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Pitt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032251202
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225120-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Critical Food Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Poverty & unemployment, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Social discrimination & inequality, Agricultural science, Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Agribusiness and primary industries, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Social discrimination and social justice, Primary industries