Politics, locality, and economic restructuring: California's central coast strawberry industry in the post-World War II period

Economic Geography

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 28-49

  Wells, Miriam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; California; Class relations; Contingent employment; Economic restructuring; Rural development; Sharecropping; The law state

Indexed keywords

HORTICULTURE; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; POLITICAL PROCESS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034009309     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2000.tb00132.x     Document Type: Article

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