An edition of They saved the crops
(2012)
They saved the crops
labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California
1st ed.
by Mitchell, Don
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They saved the crops: labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California
2012, University of Georgia Press
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0820341754 9780820341750
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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