TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Don
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - They saved the crops: labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California 
T2  - Geographies of justice and social transformation
AV  - HD1527.C2 M59 2012eb
U1  - 331.5/440979409045 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Athens, Ga.
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Migrant agricultural laborers
KW  - California
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Agricultural laborers
KW  - Foreign workers, Mexican
KW  - United States
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10555736
ER  -