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Farming across borders : a transnational history of the North American West
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- ISBN: 9781623495688
- ISBN: 1623495695
- ISBN: 9781623495695
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remote - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]
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| General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.19 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Agricultural labor in the US-Mexico borderlands. Pecan shelling and its discontents: migrant industrialization in Depression-era San Antonio / John Weber -- From the golden age of cotton to sorghum: Mexican women's labor in agro-industries along the Texas-Tamaulipas borderlands / Sonia Hernandez -- The betabeleras of Western Nebraska: gender, labor, and the beet sugar industry / Tisa M. Anders and Rosa Elia Cobos -- Dias de descanso: reassessing the social history of los braceros and the transformative role of migration / Matt Caire-Perez -- Agricultural labor in the US-Canada borderlands. Picking, posing, and performing: Puget Sound hop fields and income for aboriginal workers / Paige Raibmon -- "We are tied together ... in a hundred different ways": farmers and farm organizations across the forty-ninth parallel, 1905-1915 / Jason McCollom -- "Done for another year": the resilience of Canadian custom harvesters on the North American plains / Thomas D. Isern and Suzzanne Kelley -- Agriculture and transborder water issues. "There may be bloodshed": the US Reclamation Service, localism, and water conflicts in the Montana-Alberta borderlands, 1900-1910 / Anthony E. Carlson -- The liquid frontier: water and sustainable development on the US-Mexico border / Stephen P. Mumme -- Afterword: NAFTA, agriculture, and the greater west / Sterling Evans -- Contributors. |
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