Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ716662
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Sep-22
Pages: 42
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The Political Economy of the Mexican Farm Labor Program, 1942-64
Kim, Joon
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n2 p13 Fall 2004
The Mexican Farm Labor Program brought in an unprecedented number of Mexican workers to perform harvesting jobs in U.S. agriculture between 1942 and 1964. A political economy perspective is used to examine the process by which U.S. agriculture has come to depend on Mexican workers.
Descriptors: Mexicans, Agriculture, Labor, Migrant Workers, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Laborers, United States History, Labor Economics
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 193 Haines Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1544. Web site: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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