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"Mechanization and improved farm technology are leveling out the peaks of high seasonal labor use in Kern County. The trend is explored in the present report, and suggestions are made to expedite the change toward a stable local labor force"--Preface.
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.
Report on rural workers in 5 states of the USA - covers labour demand and supply, seasonal workers, wages, recruitment, housing, etc. Statistical tables.
Excerpt from A Study of Farm Labor in California The burden of proving the need for labor rests with the farmer and the State, but a goodly share of meeting that need, once it is fully determined, rests with the entire country. In presenting conditions, findings, and possible remedies in this report, it should be clearly understood that the office. Of State Farm Labor Agent, to represent the University of California College of Agriculture, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the State Council of Defense, was created solely to foster and assist in every way the labor supply, as it affects the production of food, feed; and fiber necessary to the conduct of the war. Whether existing-ranch conditions are good or bad for society or labor is not strictly pertinent to a' war emergency office nevertheless, while plans for greater production must utilize all resources, only changes should be advocated which will not tend to a dangerous aftermath upon the conclusion of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.