The farmworkers' journey

by López, Ann Aurelia

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Title Statements

Full title :The farmworkers' journey / Ann Aurelia López.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:c2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 337 p.)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520940574, 0520940571
oclc:on1298712422
LC Classification:HD1527.C2
Dewey Decimal:331.5/4408968720794

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.

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California Mexico Migrant agricultural laborers Migrant agricultural laborers -- Califo… Migrant agricultural laborers -- Mexico Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- Cali… Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- Mexi…