Food, farms & solidarity : French farmers challenge industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops / Chaia Heller.

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Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World -- Part I: Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture -- The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan -- The Confédération Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency -- Part II: The Confédération Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization -- Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture -- We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign -- The Trial of the GMOS: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization -- Part III: How France Grew Its Own Alter-globalization Movement -- Caravans, GMOS, and McDo: The Campaign Continues -- Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, D.C. -- Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle -- Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities -- Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned?

Chaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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