| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 529 p. : maps. |
| Series |
Geographies of justice and social transformation |
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Geographies of justice and social transformation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- History -- 20th century.
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Agricultural laborers -- California -- History -- 20th century.
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Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Human geography -- California.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780820341750 (hardcover alk. paper) |
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0820341754 (hardcover alk. paper) |
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9780820341767 (pbk. alk. paper) |
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0820341762 (pbk. alk. paper) |
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9780820344010 (electronic bk.) |
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