They Saved the Crops - Labor, Landscape, Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero era

Informationen zum Autor DON MITCHELL is Distinguished Professor of Geography Emeritus at Syracuse University and professor of cultural geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. He is the author of several books, including They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (Georgia). He was a MacArthur Fellow in 1998. Klappentext Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped--and were shaped by--the landscape itself. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. Zusammenfassung Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped—and were shaped by—the landscape itself. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias.

Product details

• Authors: Don Mitchell
• Assisted by: Nik Heynen (Editor), Melissa Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2012
• EAN: 9780820341767
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4176-7
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Geographies of Justice and Soc; Geographies of Justice and Soc
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Humangeographie, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations