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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461689803321

Autore

Mitchell Don <1961->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49126-4

9786613586490

0-8203-4401-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (574 p.)

Collana

Geographies of justice and social transformation

Disciplina

331.5/440979409045

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.