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Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives an insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Useful for all Americans, "The Farmworkers' Journey" traces t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: López, Ann Aurelia, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Migrant agricultural laborers > California.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Mexico.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > Californie.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > Mexique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Migrant agricultural laborers.
California.
Mexico.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The farmworkers' journey
  • Mexico's historical farming practices
  • Aspects of Mexico's agricultural political economy
  • Migration northward to Central California
  • Immigration experiences
  • California's corporate agribusiness
  • Farmworkers in Central California's corporate agribusiness
  • An impoverished, endangered, and overworked people in the land of plenty
  • Farmworker household survival in Central California
  • Meanwhile, back on the farm
  • Transnational corporations and the U.S. legacy in West-Central Mexico
  • Endangered Mexican farmers
  • Institutional oppression in the West-Central Mexico countryside
  • Toward an enlightened perception of California's Mexican agricultural immigrants
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Agrochemical inventories and classifications
  • Appendix B: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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