Author: David Runsten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Research report, agricultural mechanization, economic policy of technological change in the agricultural sector, Mexican migrant workers, USA - agrarian structure, historical background to foreign labour utilization, immigration trends, state intervention, structural changes after 1964, case study of tomato harvesting, agricultural policy implications. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Mechanization and Mexican Labor in California Agriculture
Author: David Runsten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Research report, agricultural mechanization, economic policy of technological change in the agricultural sector, Mexican migrant workers, USA - agrarian structure, historical background to foreign labour utilization, immigration trends, state intervention, structural changes after 1964, case study of tomato harvesting, agricultural policy implications. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Research report, agricultural mechanization, economic policy of technological change in the agricultural sector, Mexican migrant workers, USA - agrarian structure, historical background to foreign labour utilization, immigration trends, state intervention, structural changes after 1964, case study of tomato harvesting, agricultural policy implications. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520224131
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and goes on to examine the experience of ethnic groups that have provided labour for California's agricultural industry.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520224131
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and goes on to examine the experience of ethnic groups that have provided labour for California's agricultural industry.
Mexican and Mexican American Farm Workers
Author: Juan L. Gonzales
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Based on in-depth interviews and extensive observations in the counties of Glenn, Solano, Napa, and Contra Costa in Northern California, this volume explores the daily lives and problems of Mexican and Mexican-American agricultural workers in their respective communities. The author draws on his discussion with community leaders, his participation in community organization meetings, and his volunteer work in community programs to present an overall picture of this unique farm-worker society and the ways in which individuals adapt to it.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Based on in-depth interviews and extensive observations in the counties of Glenn, Solano, Napa, and Contra Costa in Northern California, this volume explores the daily lives and problems of Mexican and Mexican-American agricultural workers in their respective communities. The author draws on his discussion with community leaders, his participation in community organization meetings, and his volunteer work in community programs to present an overall picture of this unique farm-worker society and the ways in which individuals adapt to it.
Cycles of Immigration and Repatriation
Author: Camille Guerin-Gonzales
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Farming and Farm Labor: a Study in California
Author: Paul E. Sultan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Mexican Farm Labor Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Mexican and Mexican-American Agricultural Labor in the United States
Author: Martin Howard Sable
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780866565424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780866565424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Migratory Labor in American Agriculture
Author: United States. President's Commission on Migratory Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
They Saved the Crops
Author: Don Mitchell
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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 problem and solving it via the importation of relatively disempowered migrant workers, an alliance of growers and government actors committed the United States to an agricultural system that is, in important respects, still with us. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped—and were shaped by—the landscape itself. For growers, the problem was finding the right kind of labor at the right price at the right time. Workers struggled for survival and attempted to win power in the face of economic exploitation and unremitting violence. Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.” Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down the state, Mitchell's account promises to be the definitive book about California agriculture in the turbulent decades of the mid-twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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 problem and solving it via the importation of relatively disempowered migrant workers, an alliance of growers and government actors committed the United States to an agricultural system that is, in important respects, still with us. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped—and were shaped by—the landscape itself. For growers, the problem was finding the right kind of labor at the right price at the right time. Workers struggled for survival and attempted to win power in the face of economic exploitation and unremitting violence. Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.” Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down the state, Mitchell's account promises to be the definitive book about California agriculture in the turbulent decades of the mid-twentieth century.
The Political Economy of Technological Change: Mechanization of Tomato Harvesting in California
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description