They saved the crops labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / Don Mitchell.
| Author/creator | Mitchell, Don, 1961- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Athens : University of Georgia Press, |
| Description | xii, 529 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from UPCC Books History 2012 Subject Collection |
| Subjects |
| Series | Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 10 Geographies of justice and social transformation. ^A1030957 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-514) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011038378 |
| ISBN | 9780820341750 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0820341754 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780820341767 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0820341762 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |