Author: California. State Department of Employment
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Category : Mexican American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Mexican Nationals in California Agriculture, 1942-1959
Author: California. State Department of Employment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Bibliography Relating to Agricultural Labor
Author: David Charles Ruesink
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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A Guide to Materials Relating to Persons of Mexican Heritage in the United States
Author: United States. Inter-agency Committee on Mexican American Affairs
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Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Publisher:
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Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Hearings Before ... the Committee on Agriculture
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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They Saved the Crops
Author: Don Mitchell
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034401X
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: 082034401X
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.
Hearings Before ... the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First-session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
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Mexican Americans
Author: Frank Pino
Publisher:
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Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Publisher:
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Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Migratory Labor in American Agriculture
Author: United States. President's Commission on Migratory Labor
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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California's Farm Labor Problems
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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A List of References for the History of Agriculture in California
Author: University of California, Davis. Agricultural History Center
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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