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Monday, 16 May 2016

May 16

May 16
1770 Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France.



1879 The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England sets up the Afghan state.
1920 Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome.
1928 The first Academy Awards are held in Hollywood.



Born on May 16



1804 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, founder of the first U.S. kindergarten.






1905 Henry Fonda, American actor (Grapes of Wrath, On Golden Pond).

'They just dispose of them': Injured migrant farm workers sent home without treatment http://www.cbc.ca/1.3577643



Journal of Historical Geography
Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 143–156

Battle/fields: braceros, agribusiness, and the violent reproduction of the California agricultural landscape during World War II

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Abstract

The first years of World War II were marked by a series of battles in and over the fields of California. Workers struggled with growers, growers struggled with the state, and federal and California bureaucrats struggled to gain control over the anarchic labor conditions that marked California agriculture. The introduction of a guest worker program – the bracero program – that brought farmworkers from Mexico to the harvests of California and other states, brought these battles to a head as growers ought to secure their traditional access to ‘cheap labor’ and their presumed right to control the farm labor process in the state. This paper examines these battles to show how growers fought – and managed – to preserve a landscape of great power and profit. The paper argues that the agricultural landscape extant at the beginning of the war shaped the nature of these multifaceted struggles, even as it was an object of those struggles.

Keywords

  • Bracero program;
  • Landscape;
  • Labor;
  • Agriculture;
  • California



1929 Betty Carter, jazz singer.
1929 Adrienne Rich, poet (Diving into the Wreck).

Adrienne Rich’s Feminist Awakening  https://newrepublic.com/article/132117/adrienne-richs-feminist-awakening
1955 Olga Korbut, Olympic gymnast.


May 15



1923
1773 Prince Klemens Von Metternich, Chancellor of Austria

Richard Avedon, photographer.
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