Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Publisher:
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Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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They Saved the Crops
Author: Don Mitchell
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341762
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming frontier. But with the importation of the first braceros—“guest workers” from Mexico hired on an “emergency” basis after the United States entered the war—an even more intense struggle ensued over how agriculture would be conducted in the state. Esteemed geographer Don Mitchell argues that by delineating the need for cheap, flexible farm labor as a problem and solving it via the importation of relatively disempowered migrant workers, an alliance of growers and government actors committed the United States to an agricultural system that is, in important respects, still with us. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped—and were shaped by—the landscape itself. For growers, the problem was finding the right kind of labor at the right price at the right time. Workers struggled for survival and attempted to win power in the face of economic exploitation and unremitting violence. Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.” Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down the state, Mitchell's account promises to be the definitive book about California agriculture in the turbulent decades of the mid-twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341762
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming frontier. But with the importation of the first braceros—“guest workers” from Mexico hired on an “emergency” basis after the United States entered the war—an even more intense struggle ensued over how agriculture would be conducted in the state. Esteemed geographer Don Mitchell argues that by delineating the need for cheap, flexible farm labor as a problem and solving it via the importation of relatively disempowered migrant workers, an alliance of growers and government actors committed the United States to an agricultural system that is, in important respects, still with us. They Saved the Crops is a theoretically rich and stylistically innovative account of grower rapaciousness, worker militancy, rampant corruption, and bureaucratic bias. Mitchell shows that growers, workers, and officials confronted a series of problems that shaped—and were shaped by—the landscape itself. For growers, the problem was finding the right kind of labor at the right price at the right time. Workers struggled for survival and attempted to win power in the face of economic exploitation and unremitting violence. Bureaucrats tried to harness political power to meet the demands of, as one put it, “the people whom we serve.” Drawing on a deep well of empirical materials from archives up and down the state, Mitchell's account promises to be the definitive book about California agriculture in the turbulent decades of the mid-twentieth century.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1906
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1906
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Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers
Author: United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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California's Farm Labor Problems
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Migratory Labor
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
V.1: Considers S. 1123 and seven related bills, to improve educational facilities and health services for migrant laborers and their children; to exempt agricultural employees from certain provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act; and to establish a National Citizens Council on Migratory Labor. Includes Calif Dept of Public Health report "Health Conditions and Services for Domestic Seasonal Agricultural Workers and Their Families in California" Oct. 1, 1960 (p. 219-279); v.2: Focuses on S. 1129, to amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to improve programs for recruitment, transportation and distribution of agricultural workers.; v.3: Continuation of hearings on S. 3382, to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize Federal funds for construction of adequate sanitary facilities for migratory farm workers.
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Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
V.1: Considers S. 1123 and seven related bills, to improve educational facilities and health services for migrant laborers and their children; to exempt agricultural employees from certain provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act; and to establish a National Citizens Council on Migratory Labor. Includes Calif Dept of Public Health report "Health Conditions and Services for Domestic Seasonal Agricultural Workers and Their Families in California" Oct. 1, 1960 (p. 219-279); v.2: Focuses on S. 1129, to amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to improve programs for recruitment, transportation and distribution of agricultural workers.; v.3: Continuation of hearings on S. 3382, to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize Federal funds for construction of adequate sanitary facilities for migratory farm workers.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2350
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2350
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Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers: Hearings and workshops before the Commission on Agricultural Workers, 1989-1993
Author: United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Migratory Labor
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Migratory Labor
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
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Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
Book Description
Considers (86) S. 1085, (86) S. 1778, (86) S. 2141, (86) S. 2498.
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Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
Book Description
Considers (86) S. 1085, (86) S. 1778, (86) S. 2141, (86) S. 2498.