Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 337 pages) : illustrations, map |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index. |
Contents |
The farmworkers' journey -- Mexico's historical farming practices -- Aspects of Mexico's agricultural political economy -- Migration northward to Central California -- Immigration experiences -- California's corporate agribusiness -- Farmworkers in Central California's corporate agribusiness -- An impoverished, endangered, and overworked people in the land of plenty -- Farmworker household survival in Central California -- Meanwhile, back on the farm -- Transnational corporations and the U.S. legacy in West-Central Mexico -- Endangered Mexican farmers -- Institutional oppression in the West-Central Mexico countryside -- Toward an enlightened perception of California's Mexican agricultural immigrants -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Agrochemical inventories and classifications -- Appendix B: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Migrant agricultural laborers -- California.
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Migrant agricultural laborers. |
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California. |
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- Mexico.
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Mexico. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: López, Ann Aurelia, 1945- Farmworkers' journey. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520250727 0520250729 (DLC) 2006102235 (OCoLC)77573833 |
ISBN |
9780520940574 (electronic book) |
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0520940571 (electronic book) |
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9781429481823 (electronic book) |
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142948182X (electronic book) |
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