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020 _a9780820344010
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020 _z9780820341750 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z0820341754 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z9780820341767 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z0820341762 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 0 0 _aHD1527.C2
_bM59 2012
082 0 0 _a331.5/440979409045
_223
100 1 _aMitchell, Don,
_d1961-
245 1 0 _aThey saved the crops
_h[electronic resource] :
_blabor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California /
_cDon Mitchell.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aAthens, Ga. :
_bUniversity of Georgia Press,
_c2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (576 p.)
490 1 _aGeographies of justice and social transformation
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aHuman geography
_zCalifornia.
650 0 _aForeign workers, Mexican
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAgricultural laborers
_zCalifornia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aMigrant agricultural laborers
_zCalifornia
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aGeographies of justice and social transformation.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820344010/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c35331
_d35331