| Physical description |
xxv, 904 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Book 1 Foundations in Conquest -- Chapter 1 In the Nets of Heaven: The Campesino on the Spanish Frontier 3 -- Chapter 2 Bird Herders, Stirrup Boys, and Naked Winemakers: Assembling a Labor Force 21 -- Chapter 3 Always Trembling With Fear: Controlling Mission Farmworkers 38 -- Chapter 4 No Longer Keep Us By Force: Accommodation and Resistance Among Mission Field Hands 60 -- Book 2 Meaning of Free Labor -- Chapter 5 Not Free to Be Idle: Life and Labor on the Mexican Ranchos and American Farms 89 -- Chapter 6 To the Highest Bidder: Native Field Hands and Gold Rush Agriculture 115 -- Chapter 7 They Have Filled Our Jails and Graveyards: The Decline of Indian Labor 135 -- Book 3 Golden Harvest -- Chapter 8 Between the Teeth of the Cylinder: The Emergence of Migratory Labor and Farm Technology 161 -- Chapter 9 Open-Air Factories: Industrialization of Labor on the Bonanza Wheat Farms 178 -- Chapter 10 Hell's Fury and Liquid Fire: The Coarse Culture of Wheat Harvesters and Threshers 205 -- Book 4 Immigrants from the East -- Chapter 11 Trustworthy Laborers: Chinese Infiltration into Irrigated Agriculture 235 -- Chapter 12 Bought Like Any Other Commodity: China Bosses and Gang Labor 258 -- Chapter 13 Chinese Must Go! Community, Chinatowns, and the Anti-Chinese Movement 286 -- Chapter 14 More Manpower from a Pint of Rice: Sugar Beets, Short-Handled Hoes, and Chinese Exclusion 307 -- Chapter 15 Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion 334 -- Chapter 16 Worn out, Bent, and Discouraged: Chinese Labor (Almost) Disappears from the Fields 371 -- Book 5 Japanese Farmworkers -- Chapter 17 Running From Vine to Vine: Japanese Farmworkers and the Beginning of Labor Militancy 407 -- Chapter 18 Blood Spots on the Moon: The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike 440 -- Chapter 19 Exact Everything Possible: Keiyaku-nin, Mexicans, Sikhs, and the Quest for Labor Stability 470 -- Chapter 20 Handle the Fruit Like Eggs! The Japanese Shift from Field-Workers to Farmers 497 -- Book 6 Bindlemen -- Chapter 21 Blinky Joe, Red Mike, and Hobo Sam: Bindlemen on the Move 527 -- Chapter 22 As Rotten as Ever: Jungle Camps, Slave Markets, and the Main Stem 548 -- Chapter 23 Privilege of Quitting: Death, Discontent, and Alienation 572 -- Chapter 24 I've Been Robbed: The Struggle to Organize Farmworkers 596. |
| Subject |
Agricultural laborers -- California -- History.
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Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- California -- History.
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| ISBN |
0804738793 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0804738807 (paperback: alkaline paper) |
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