Farmworkers' Journey

Name: Farmworkers' Journey
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ISBN: 9780520250734

ISBN-10: 0520250737

ISBN-13: 9780520250734

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ann Lopez

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Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia Loacute;pez conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along the migrant circuit. She deftly weaves their voices together with up-to-date research to portray a world hidden from most Americans--a world of inescapable poverty that has worsened considerably since NAFTA was implemented in 1994. In fact, today it has become nearly impossible for rural communities in Mexico to continue to farm the land…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 361
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



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



Agrochemical Inventories and Classifications



The Universal Declaration of Human Rights


References


Index