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They saved the crops : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California /
At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia. :
University of Georgia Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Geographies of justice and social transformation.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.