They saved the crops
Subtitle: labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California
By: Don Mitchell
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Geographies of justice and social transformation; Geographies of justice and social transformation
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780820341750; 9780820341767
Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers; Agricultural laborers; Mexican Foreign workers; Human geography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The agribusiness landscape in the "war emergency": the origins of the bracero program and the struggle to control it; title: The struggle for a rational farming landscape: worker housing and grower power; title: The dream of labor power: fluid labor and the solid landscape; title: Organizing the landscape: labor camps, international agreements, and the NFLU; title: The persistent landscape: perpetuating crisis in California; title: Imperial farming, imperialist landscapes; title: Labor process, laboring life; title: Operation wetback: preserving the status quo; title: RFLOAC: the imbrication of grower control; title: Power in the peach bowl: of domination, prevailing wages, and the (never-ending) question of housing; title: Dead labor; title: literally: (another) crisis in the bracero program; title: Organizing resistance: swinging at the heart of the bracero program; title: The demise of the bracero program: closing the gates of cheap labor?; title: The ever-new, ever-same: labor militancy, rationalization, and the post-bracero landscape.