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They Saved the Crops - Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (Hardcover, New)
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They Saved the Crops - Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (Hardcover, New)
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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
conducted in the state. Esteemed geographer Don Mitchell argues
that by delineating the need for cheap, flexible farm labour 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 labour 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.
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