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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 145–146.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Deborah Fink Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics . By Kathleen Mapes . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2009 . 336 pp., $30.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-252-07667-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book Reviews...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 298–320.
Published: 01 July 2005
... to the region by the rapidly expanding sugar beet industry. To address these perceived threats, state and local public officials, civic organizations, and the sugar industry launched a campaign to replace Mexican migrant laborers with local teenage workers. Hence, the number of Mexican people in the region...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 283–322.
Published: 01 July 2009
...-twentieth century was a watershed event for many Mayan farmers in Guatemala. While some Maya hailed synthetic fertilizers’ immediate effectiveness as a relief from famines and migrant labor, others lamented the long-term deterioration of their public health, soil quality, and economic autonomy. Since...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 164–186.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Marilyn Irvin Holt Abstract During World War II, American agriculture grappled with labor shortages while being expected to produce more for the military and the home front. Historians have studied the use of labor sources such as migrant workers and the Women's Land Army during this time...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (4): 600–628.
Published: 01 October 2020
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Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 51-58. 5.
Kathleen Mapes, Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009), 10, 128...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 February 2023
... Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023 migrant labor Great Plains capitalism E dwin B rown had an eye for tragedy. A social reformer, he traveled the country in the spring of 1909 in search of the answer to a simple question: “Why is there poverty and suffering amidst...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 266–267.
Published: 01 April 2008
...: Kent State University Press, 2006. 160 pp., $24.95,hardback,ISBN 978-0-87338-892-4. Migrant farm labor increasingly served US agriculture in the second half of the nineteenth century as subsistence farming began to give way to com mercial agriculture. The twentieth-century urbanization...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 337–339.
Published: 01 May 2023
... plants, migrant labor, and commercial agricultural practices ebbed and flowed across a permeable southwestern border. This study, divided into three thematic sections each comprising two chapters, investigates the successive development of New Mexico's commercial apple, cotton, and chili pepper...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 January 2018
... fieldwork and archival research to uncover not only the complicated dynamics of capitalist farming and the migrant labor network in South Africa, but also to show how these two systems intersected in the country s northern borderlands. In doing so, the book also reveals how large numbers of people uprooted...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 774–776.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Department of Justice and congressional reports, memorandums, and labor statistics. Her most compelling sources, however, are the oral histories, anecdotes, and interviews she collected across the border, in Mexico, from former migrant workers, an important inclusion that substantiates and deepens Managed...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 267–269.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Roger Horowitz The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917 . Jeffrey M. Pilcher . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 BookReviews munity nature of migrant farm labor. During four growing seasons begin ning in 2001...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 633–658.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., “Hellwig Brothers Selling Farm in Chesterfield after 45 Years,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch , May 16, 1982, 1, 5. 6. For wartime food programs, see Gabrielle E. Clark, “From the Panama Canal to Post-Fordism: Producing Temporary Labor Migrants within and beyond Agriculture in the United States (1904-2013...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 776–778.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Michael S. Kideckel 776 Agricultural History trate how decisions aimed at protecting migrant laborers served only to marginalize them into two unwanted categories: the easily exploited wetback peasant, and the criminal, morally deviant pachuco (181). Salinas drives her point across as she...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Migrants and South Africa s Border Farms, Maxim Bolt combines ethnographic fieldwork and archival research to uncover not only the complicated dynamics of capitalist farming and the migrant labor network in South Africa, but also to show how these two systems intersected in the country s northern...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 144–145.
Published: 01 January 2011
... the Frontier represents a well-researched and well-written history playing on the theme of the small farm s idealization and the noble effort to keep that image alive in the postwar period. William D. Rowley University of Nevada Reno Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 432–433.
Published: 01 July 2007
... of theMixtec people in and around the state of Oaxaca, their tra ditional interactions with the land, and the developments that forcedmany of them into a pattern of migrant labor inMexico and theUnited States. Along the way, Wright traced the evolution in pesticide capabilities and application methods...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 331–361.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Mary Summers Abstract Paul Taylor, an agricultural labor economist at Berkeley, worked, often with his wife, the photographer Dorothea Lange, to document the conditions faced by migrant workers during the Depression. In the 1940s, however, he turned to a focus on the Reclamation Act of 1902’s...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 381–402.
Published: 01 July 2010
... context for today's policy debate.1 Migrant farm laborers were one of themost economically challenged groups inTruman's America. A typical schedule for a migrant family at the beginning of the 1950s illustrates these challenges. A father,mother, and three children might begin their year picking vegetables...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 2000
... Steven Stoll leads a close, personal, and sometimes shocking tour of California's agricultural landscape between the 1880s and 1930s. Most readers will know the story's broad outlines: elite horticulturists invest heavily in the fields and fashion a national marketing network while rationalizing migrant...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 347–348.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the Agricultural History Society 2023 There is a pressing need in indentured labor studies for new approaches to examining and conceptualizing the nature and dynamics of the global migrant labor system that scattered some 2.2 million indentured Asian laborers, two-thirds of whom were Indians, throughout...
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