The farmworkers' journey
By: Ann Aurelia López
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780520250727; 9780520250734
Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers -- California; Migrant agricultural laborers -- Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index
Table of contents: title: The farmworkers' journey; title: Mexico's historical farming practices; title: Aspects of Mexico's agricultural political economy; title: Migration northward to Central California; title: Immigration experiences; title: California's corporate agribusiness; title: Farmworkers in Central California's corporate agribusiness; title: An impoverished, endangered, and overworked people in the land of plenty; title: Farmworker household survival in Central California; title: Meanwhile, back on the farm; title: Transnational corporations and the U.S. legacy in West-Central Mexico; title: Endangered Mexican farmers; title: Institutional oppression in the West-Central Mexico countryside; title: Toward an enlightened perception of California's Mexican agricultural immigrants; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix A: Agrochemical inventories and classifications; title: Appendix B: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights