They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
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 frontier. But with the importation of the first braceros-guest workers from Mexico hired on an emergency basis after the United States entered the war-an even more intense struggle ensued over how agriculture would be conducted in the state. Esteemed geographer Don Mitchell argues that by delineating the need for cheap, flexible farm labor as a prob…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8203-4176-7
- EAN: 9780820341767
- Produktnummer: 12302095
- Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D3.3 cm 780 g
- Auflage: New
- Reihenbandnummer: 10
- Gewicht: 780
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