Dark sweat, white gold : California farm workers, cotton, and the New Deal / Devra Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Devra, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cotton farmers--History--California.

Cotton farmers.

Cotton farmers--California--History.

Foreign workers, Mexican--History--California--California.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Foreign workers, Mexican--California--History.

Migrant agricultural laborers--History--California.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Migrant agricultural laborers--California--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.) : 10 illustrations, 2 maps

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations. She pays particular attention to Mexican field workers and their organized struggles, including the famous strikes of 1933.Weber's perceptive examination of the relationships between economic structure, human agency, and the state, as well as her discussions of the crucial role of women in both Mexican and Anglo working-class life, make her book a valuable contribution to labor, agriculture, Chicano, Mexican, and California history.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations and Maps

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE. "We are producing a product to sell. . ."

CHAPTER TWO. Sin Fronteras

CHAPTER THREE. "As the faulting of the earth . . . "

CHAPTER FOUR. The Mixed Promise of the New Deal

CHAPTER FIVE. New Migrants in the Fields

CHAPTER SIX. New Deal Relief Policies, Local Organizing, and Electoral Battles

CHAPTER SEVEN. End of a Hope

CHAPTER EIGHT. "Down the valleys wild . . . "

APPENDIX A. Tables

APPENDIX B. Proposal of the Associated Farmers

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520918474

0520918479

9780585098593

058509859X

OCLC:

1149507590