The farmworkers' journey /

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Author / Creator:	López, Ann Aurelia, 1945-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Description:	xxiii, 337 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Migrant agricultural laborers -- California. Migrant agricultural laborers -- Mexico. Migrant agricultural laborers. California. Mexico.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7245101

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ISBN:	9780520250727 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520250729 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520250734 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520250737 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Farmworkers' Journey
2. Mexico's Historical Farming Practices
3. Aspects of Mexico's Agricultural Political Economy
4. Migration Northward to Central California
5. Immigration Experiences
6. California's Corporate Agribusiness
7. Farmworkers in Central California's Corporate Agribusiness
8. An Impoverished, Endangered, and Overworked People in the Land of Plenty
9. Farmworker Household Survival in Central California
10. Meanwhile, Back on the Farm
11. Transnational Corporations and the U.S. Legacy in West-Central Mexico
12. Endangered Mexican Farmers
13. Institutional Oppression in the West-Central Mexico Countryside
14. 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
References
Index

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