They saved the crops [electronic resource] : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / Don Mitchell.
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BookSeries: Geographies of justice and social transformationPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 529 p. : mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 331.5/440979409045 23
- HD1527.C2 M59 2012eb
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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.
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