The farmworkers' journey

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Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives an insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Useful for all Americans, "The Farmworkers' Journey" traces the human consequences of our policy decisions.

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

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Publication Date:©2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 337 pages) : : illustrations, map

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520940574, 0520940571, 9781429481823, 142948182X, 143370840X, 9781433708404, 0520250729, 9780520250727, 0520250737, 9780520250734, 1282360205, 9781282360204
oclc:ocn166257334
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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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor California Mexico Migrant agricultural laborers Migrant agricultural laborers -- Califo… Migrant agricultural laborers -- Mexico POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- Cali… Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- Mexi…