Dark sweat, white gold : California farm workers, cotton, and the New Deal /
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| Author / Creator: | Weber, Devra, 1946- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11100597 |
| Summary: | In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations. She pays particular attention to Mexican field workers and their organized struggles, including the famous strikes of 1933.<br> <br> Weber's perceptive examination of the relationships between economic structure, human agency, and the state, as well as her discussions of the crucial role of women in both Mexican and Anglo working-class life, make her book a valuable contribution to labor, agriculture, Chicano, Mexican, and California history.<br> <br> In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520918474 0520918479 058509859X 9780585098593 0520084896 0520207106 |