Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers : : Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor /

Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers : : Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor / / Barbara Wells.

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In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California's Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Wells, Barbara,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Families in Focus
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Physical Description:1 online resource (220 p.) :; 10 photographs, 1 map, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Structure of Agriculture and the Organization of Farm Labor
  • 2. Farmworker Origins
  • 3. Life in a Border Community
  • 4. Negotiating Work and Family
  • 5. The Legacy of Farm Labor
  • 6. Surviving Now and Building a Better Life for Later
  • 7. Why Do They Stay?
  • Conclusion
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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