The farmworkers' journey [electronic resource] / Ann Aurelia López.

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 t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: López, Ann Aurelia, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.