TY - BOOK AU - Mitchell,Don ED - Project Muse. TI - They saved the crops: labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California T2 - Geographies of justice and social transformation SN - 9780820344010 AV - HD1527.C2 M59 2012 U1 - 331.5/440979409045 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Athens, Ga. PB - University of Georgia Press KW - Human geography KW - California KW - Foreign workers, Mexican KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Migrant agricultural laborers KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820344010/ ER -