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They saved the crops : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / Don Mitchell

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Author:
Mitchell, Don 1961-  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 529 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
California
United States
Date:
2012
C2012
20th century
Contents:
The agribusiness landscape in the "war emergency": the origins of the bracero program and the struggle to control it -- The struggle for a rational farming landscape: worker housing and grower power -- The dream of labor power: fluid labor and the solid landscape -- Organizing the landscape: labor camps, international agreements, and the NFLU -- The persistent landscape: perpetuating crisis in California -- Imperial farming, imperialist landscapes -- Labor process, laboring life -- Operation wetback: preserving the status quo -- RFLOAC: the imbrication of grower control -- Power in the peach bowl: of domination, prevailing wages, and the (never-ending) question of housing -- Dead labor -- literally: (another) crisis in the bracero program -- Organizing resistance: swinging at the heart of the bracero program -- The demise of the bracero program: closing the gates of cheap labor? -- The ever-new, ever-same: labor militancy, rationalization, and the post-bracero landscape
Topic:
Migrant agricultural laborers--History  Search this
Agricultural laborers--History  Search this
Foreign workers, Mexican--History  Search this
Human geography  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_984572