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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)
Don Mitchell
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Paperback. Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped--and were shaped by--the landscape itself. "They Saved the Crops" is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. Num Pages: 576 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFS; JPQB; KNXB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 780.
A MacArthur Award–winning scholar explores the explosive intersection of farming, immigration, and big business
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 labour 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 ... Read more
A MacArthur Award–winning scholar explores the explosive intersection of farming, immigration, and big business
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 labour 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820341767
SKU
V9780820341767
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