They saved the crops : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California

They saved the crops : labor, landscape, and the struggle over industrial farming in Bracero-era California / Don Mitchell.

At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming f...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Don, 1961- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Georgia. : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Geographies of justice and social transformation.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Migrant agricultural laborers > California > History > 20th century.
Agricultural laborers > California > History > 20th century.
Foreign workers, Mexican > United States > History > 20th century.
Human geography > California.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Agricultural laborers
Foreign workers, Mexican
Human geography
Migrant agricultural laborers
California
United States
History
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Table of 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.

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