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North for the harvest : Mexican workers, growers, and the sugar beet industry / Jim Norris.
Lippincott Library HD9109.A42 N67 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norris, Jim, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Crystal Sugar Company.
- Sugar beet industry--Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.).
- Sugar beet industry.
- Mexicans--Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.).
- Mexicans.
- Migrant labor--Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.).
- Migrant labor.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 223 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- North for the Harvest examines the evolution of the relationships among the American Crystal Sugar Company, sugar beet growers, and Mexican migrant workers in the mid-twentieth century. Though popular convention holds that corporations and landowners invariably exploited migrant workers, Norris reveals that these relationships were more complex.
- Contents:
- Coming together
- Depression years and transformation
- War and aftermath
- Growers, Mexicans, and patronismo
- Anxieties and reassessments
- Cuba, Texas, and the Red River Valley
- The growers take control.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780873516310
- 0873516311
- OCLC:
- 232128189
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