They saved the crops : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / / Don Mitchell
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| Autore: |
Mitchell Don <1961->
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| Titolo: |
They saved the crops : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / / Don Mitchell
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| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped--and were shaped by--the landscape itself. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California |
| Titolo autorizzato: | They saved the crops |
| ISBN: | 9786613586490 |
| 9781280491269 | |
| 1280491264 | |
| 9780820344010 | |
| 082034401X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911102187503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Geographies of justice and social transformation.