03209nam 2200661 a 450 991046168980332120200520144314.01-280-49126-497866135864900-8203-4401-X(CKB)2670000000176425(OCoLC)784959321(CaPaEBR)ebrary10555736(SSID)ssj0000652780(PQKBManifestationID)11442561(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652780(PQKBWorkID)10642350(PQKB)10285494(MiAaPQ)EBC3039093(MdBmJHUP)muse17761(Au-PeEL)EBL3039093(CaPaEBR)ebr10555736(CaONFJC)MIL358649(EXLCZ)99267000000017642520110923d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThey saved the crops[electronic resource] labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California /Don Mitchell1st ed.Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Press20121 online resource (574 p.)Geographies of justice and social transformationBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8203-4175-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Geographies of justice and social transformation.Migrant agricultural laborersCaliforniaHistory20th centuryAgricultural laborersCaliforniaHistory20th centuryForeign workers, MexicanUnited StatesHistory20th centuryHuman geographyCaliforniaElectronic books.Migrant agricultural laborersHistoryAgricultural laborersHistoryForeign workers, MexicanHistoryHuman geography331.5/440979409045Mitchell Don1961-329683MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461689803321They saved the crops2075816UNINA