They saved the crops labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California

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 landscap...

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1. Verfasser: Mitchell, Don (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Athens, Ga. u.a. Univ. of Georgia Press 2012
Schriftenreihe:Geographies of justice and social transformation 10
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 503 - 514
Beschreibung:XII, 529 S.
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ISBN:0820341754
0-8203-4175-4
0820341762
0-8203-4176-2
9780820341750
978-0-8203-4175-0
9780820341767
978-0-8203-4176-7