They saved the crops
Mitchell, Don, 1961-
They saved the crops labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / [electronic resource] : Don Mitchell. - 1st ed. - Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2012. - xii, 529 p. : maps. - Geographies of justice and social transformation . - Geographies of justice and social transformation. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Migrant agricultural laborers--History--California--20th century.
Agricultural laborers--History--California--20th century.
Foreign workers, Mexican--History--United States--20th century.
Human geography--California.
Electronic books.
HD1527.C2 / M59 2012eb
331.5/440979409045
They saved the crops labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / [electronic resource] : Don Mitchell. - 1st ed. - Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2012. - xii, 529 p. : maps. - Geographies of justice and social transformation . - Geographies of justice and social transformation. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Migrant agricultural laborers--History--California--20th century.
Agricultural laborers--History--California--20th century.
Foreign workers, Mexican--History--United States--20th century.
Human geography--California.
Electronic books.
HD1527.C2 / M59 2012eb
331.5/440979409045