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Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal

Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal

Weber, Devra

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryRegional: WestSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0520207106
ISBN13: 9780520207103
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Dec 20 1996
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.22
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations. She pays particular attention to Mexican field workers and their organized struggles, including the famous strikes of 1933.

Weber's perceptive examination of the relationships between economic structure, human agency, and the state, as well as her discussions of the crucial role of women in both Mexican and Anglo working-class life, make her book a valuable contribution to labor, agriculture, Chicano, Mexican, and California history.

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