ABSTRACT
Environmental justice is a movement that focuses on a solution-oriented approach centered on creating society that is productive and sustainable for all of its members, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or citizenship status. In the United States, environmental justice has several widely agreed-upon characteristics, including considerations of politics of race, justice to people, environmental boundaries, distributive justice, blame and responsibility, scales of analysis, and the government and its agencies. While environmental justice as field grew largely out of the antitoxic and civil rights movements, there are some interesting distinctions in the types of organizations and organizing between these groups. Peter Wenz argues that environmental justice currently focuses on two main theories of justice: distributive and utilitarianism. This chapter introduces the main issues facing laborers across different scales of conventional and organic agriculture in United States. Injustice faced by laborers within agriculture has been well documented over time, with more specific attention paid to it in the last two decades.
