| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006102235 |
| ISBN | 9780520250727 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520250729 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520250734 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520250737 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
