02828nam a2200433 a 4500 ebr10555736 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110923s2012 gaub sb 001 0 eng d 2011038378 9780820341750 (hardcover alk. paper) 0820341754 (hardcover alk. paper) 9780820341767 (pbk. alk. paper) 0820341762 (pbk. alk. paper) 9780820344010 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)784959321 n-us-ca n-us--- HD1527.C2 M59 2012eb 331.5/440979409045 23 Mitchell, Don, 1961- They saved the crops [electronic resource] : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / Don Mitchell. 1st ed. Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2012. xii, 529 p. : maps. Geographies of justice and social transformation 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. 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. local ebrary, Inc. Geographies of justice and social transformation. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10555736 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 89223 89223