Mexican contract workers and the U.S. capitalist agricultural labor process: The formative era, 1942-1964

Rural Sociology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-108

  Mize Jr , Ronald L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL SOCIETY;

EID: 33644922658     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1526/003601106777789765     Document Type: Article

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