Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (936 p.) 55 illustrations |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Bibliografie |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Frontmatter Contents List of Illustrations Preface Book One. Foundations in Conquest Chapter One. In the Nets of Heaven: The Campesino on the Spanish Frontier Chapter Two. Bird Herders, Stirrup Boys, and Naked Winemakers: Assembling a Labor Force Chapter Three. Always Trembling With Fear: Controlling Mission Farmworkers Chapter Four. No Longer Keep Us By Force: Accommodation and Resistance Among Mission Field Hands Book Two. The Meaning of Free Labor Chapter Five. Not Free to Be Idle: Life and Labor on the Mexican Ranchos and American Farms Chapter Six. To the Highest Bidder: Native Field Hands and Gold Rush Agriculture Chapter Seven. They Have Filled Our Jails and Graveyards: The Decline of Indian Labor Book Three. Golden Harvest Chapter Eight. Between the Teeth of the Cylinder: The Emergence of Migratory Labor and Farm Technology Chapter Nine. Open-Air Factories: Industrialization of Labor on the Bonanza Wheat Farms Chapter Ten. Hell’s Fury and Liquid Fire: The Coarse Culture of Wheat Harvesters and Threshers Book Four. Immigrants from the East Chapter Eleven. Trustworthy Laborers: Chinese Infiltration into Irrigated Agriculture Chapter Twelve. Bought Like Any Other Commodity: China Bosses and Gang Labor Chapter Thirteen. The Chinese Must Go! Community, Chinatowns, and the Anti-Chinese Movement Chapter Fourteen. More Manpower from a Pint of Rice: Sugar Beets, Short-Handled Hoes, and Chinese Exclusion Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion Chapter Sixteen. Worn out, Bent, and Discouraged: Chinese Labor (Almost) Disappears from the Fields Book Five. Japanese Farmworkers Chapter Seventeen. Running From Vine to Vine: Japanese Farmworkers and the Beginning of Labor Militancy Chapter Eighteen. Blood Spots on the Moon: The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike Chapter Nineteen. Exact Everything Possible: Keiyaku-nin, Mexicans, Sikhs, and the Quest for Labor Stability Chapter Twenty. Handle the Fruit Like Eggs! The Japanese Shift from Field-Workers to Farmers Book Six. Bindlemen Chapter Twenty-One. Blinky Joe, Red Mike, and Hobo Sam: Bindlemen on the Move Chapter Twenty-Two. As Rotten as Ever: Jungle Camps, Slave Markets, and the Main Stem Chapter Twenty-Three. The Privilege of Quitting: Death, Discontent, and Alienation Chapter Twenty-Four. I’ve Been Robbed: The Struggle to Organize Farmworkers Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Acknowledgments Index In English |
ISBN: | 978-1-5036-2046-9 ; 978-0-8047-3879-8 |
Other identifiers: | 10.1515/9781503620469 [DOI] |
Classification: | USA |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477916