Made in Baja : the lives of farmworkers and growers behind Mexico's transnational agricultural boom /

"Much of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multi-billion dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the U.S. But how has this growth affected those living there? Base...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zlolniski, Christian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Temas:
Agricultural laborers > Mexico > Baja California (State) > Social conditions.
Travailleurs agricoles > Mexique > Basse-Californie (État) > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Agricultural laborers > Social conditions
Mexico > Baja California (State)
agricultural boom.
american.
anthropologist.
baja california.
civic.
colonia communities.
ecological damage.
ethnographic fieldwork.
fruit.
generated jobs.
growers.
industry.
insatiable demand.
labor migration.
labor.
lacking basic infrastructure.
mexican.
multibillion dollar export.
political rights.
population.
produce.
ramifications.
reduced poverty.
san quintin.
unforeseen consequences.
united states.
vegetables.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The birth and development of export agriculture in the San Quintín Valley
  • Transnational agribusiness, local growers, and discontents
  • Labor recruitment : from local to transnational systems of labor contracting
  • "They want first-class workers with third world wages" : the workplace regime of transnational agriculture
  • Resisting the carrilla in the workplace : forms of labor protests
  • Colonizing and establishing roots in arid lands
  • Watercide : export agriculture, water insecurity, and social unrest
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : policy recommendations.

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