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Mitchell Don <1961-> |
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They saved the crops [[electronic resource] ] : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / / Don Mitchell |
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Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, 2012 |
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1-280-49126-4 |
9786613586490 |
0-8203-4401-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (574 p.) |
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Collana |
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Geographies of justice and social transformation |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Migrant agricultural laborers - California - History - 20th century |
Agricultural laborers - California - History - 20th century |
Foreign workers, Mexican - United States - History - 20th century |
Human geography - California |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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