Format:
Online-Ressource (xxiii, 337 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520250734
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9780520250727
Content:
Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia López conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along the migrant circuit. She deftly weaves their voices together with up-to-date research to portray a world hidden from most Americans-a world of inescapable poverty that has worsened considerably since NAFTA was implemented in 1994. In fact, today it h
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CONTENTS; 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
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12 ENDANGERED MEXICAN FARMERS13 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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520250734
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Farmworkers' Journey
Language:
English
URL:
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