Mitchell, Don, 1961-
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.
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Part of the series Geographies of justice and social transformation 10;Geographies of justice and social transformation.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-514) 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.
Subjects:
- Migrant agricultural laborers — California — History — 20th century.
- Agricultural laborers — California — History — 20th century.
- Foreign workers, Mexican — United States — History — 20th century.
- Human geography — California.
Requested by Lansing, M