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They saved the crops

by Mitchell, Don,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Geographies of justice and social transformation Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : University of Georgia Press, (Athens, Ga. :) Physical details: xii, 529 p. : maps.
Subject(s): Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- History -- 20th century. | Agricultural laborers -- California -- History -- 20th century. | Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States -- History -- 20th century. | Human geography -- California. | Electronic books.
Year: 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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