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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 |
Pubblicazione: | Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (574 p.) |
Disciplina: | 331.5/440979409045 |
Soggetto topico: | Migrant agricultural laborers - California - History - 20th century |
Agricultural laborers - California - History - 20th century | |
Foreign workers, Mexican - United States - History - 20th century | |
Human geography - California | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | They saved the crops |
ISBN: | 1-280-49126-4 |
9786613586490 | |
0-8203-4401-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910790121503321 |
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