The challenge of housing California's hired farm laborers

Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development: Contrasting the 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots'

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 193-206

  Villarejo, Don ^a  

^a California Institute for Rural Studies   (United States)

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