| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
labor, landscape, andthe struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California |
| Author: |
MitchellDon, 1961- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Athens, Ga. |
| Published: |
University of Georgia Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2012 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (576 p.). |
| Series: |
Geographies of justice and social transformation |
| Subject: |
Human geography - California - |
| Subject: |
Foreign workers, Mexican - History - United States - 20th century - |
| Subject: |
Agricultural laborers - History - California - 20th century - |
| Subject: |
Migrant agricultural laborers - History - California - 20th century - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820344010/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780820344010electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
082034401Xelectronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780820341750hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0820341754hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780820341767pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0820341762pbk. |
| 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 |