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They saved the crops : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / Don Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Don, 1961-
- Series:
- Geographies of justice and social transformation.
- Geographies of justice and social transformation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migrant agricultural laborers--California--History--20th century.
- Migrant agricultural laborers.
- Agricultural laborers--California--History--20th century.
- Agricultural laborers.
- Foreign workers, Mexican--United States--History--20th century.
- Foreign workers, Mexican.
- Human geography--California.
- Human geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (574 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped--and were shaped by--the landscape itself. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613586490
- 9781280491269
- 1280491264
- 9780820344010
- 082034401X
- OCLC:
- 784959321
- Publisher Number:
- heb40356 hdl
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