• They saved the crops : labor, landscape, andthe struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: labor, landscape, andthe struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California
    [NT 47261] Author: MitchellDon, 1961-
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Athens, Ga.
    [NT 47263] Published: University of Georgia Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2012
    [NT 50960] Edition: 1st ed.
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (576 p.).
    [NT 47298] Series: Geographies of justice and social transformation
    [NT 47266] Subject: Human geography - California -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Foreign workers, Mexican - History - United States - 20th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Agricultural laborers - History - California - 20th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Migrant agricultural laborers - History - California - 20th century -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820344010/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780820344010electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 082034401Xelectronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780820341750hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0820341754hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780820341767pbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0820341762pbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: The agribusiness landscape in the "war emergency": the origins of the bracero program and thestruggle 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 thelandscape: labor clmps, 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 heartof 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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