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1st ed.

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2012

1 online resource (xii, 529 p.) : maps

ISBN 9780820344010 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0820341754 (hardcover alk. paper)

ISBN 0820341762 (pbk. alk. paper)

ISBN 9780820341750 (hardcover alk. paper)

ISBN 9780820341767 (pbk. alk. paper)

Geographies of justice and social transformation

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)784959321