Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion

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Street, Richard Steven. "Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion". Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2004, pp. 334-370. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503620469-017

Street, R. (2004). Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion. In Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 (pp. 334-370). Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503620469-017

Street, R. 2004. Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion. Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, pp. 334-370. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503620469-017

Street, Richard Steven. "Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion" In Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913, 334-370. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503620469-017

Street R. Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion. In: Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913. Redwood City: Stanford University Press; 2004. p.334-370. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503620469-017

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
List of Illustrations xiii
Preface xv
Book One. Foundations in Conquest
Chapter One. In the Nets of Heaven: The Campesino on the Spanish Frontier 1
Chapter Two. Bird Herders, Stirrup Boys, and Naked Winemakers: Assembling a Labor Force 21
Chapter Three. Always Trembling With Fear: Controlling Mission Farmworkers 38
Chapter Four. No Longer Keep Us By Force: Accommodation and Resistance Among Mission Field Hands 60
Book Two. The Meaning of Free Labor
Chapter Five. Not Free to Be Idle: Life and Labor on the Mexican Ranchos and American Farms 87
Chapter Six. To the Highest Bidder: Native Field Hands and Gold Rush Agriculture 115
Chapter Seven. They Have Filled Our Jails and Graveyards: The Decline of Indian Labor 135
Book Three. Golden Harvest
Chapter Eight. Between the Teeth of the Cylinder: The Emergence of Migratory Labor and Farm Technology 159
Chapter Nine. Open-Air Factories: Industrialization of Labor on the Bonanza Wheat Farms 178
Chapter Ten. Hell’s Fury and Liquid Fire: The Coarse Culture of Wheat Harvesters and Threshers 205
Book Four. Immigrants from the East
Chapter Eleven. Trustworthy Laborers: Chinese Infiltration into Irrigated Agriculture 233
Chapter Twelve. Bought Like Any Other Commodity: China Bosses and Gang Labor 258
Chapter Thirteen. The Chinese Must Go! Community, Chinatowns, and the Anti-Chinese Movement 286
Chapter Fourteen. More Manpower from a Pint of Rice: Sugar Beets, Short-Handled Hoes, and Chinese Exclusion 307
Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion 334
Chapter Sixteen. Worn out, Bent, and Discouraged: Chinese Labor (Almost) Disappears from the Fields 371
Book Five. Japanese Farmworkers
Chapter Seventeen. Running From Vine to Vine: Japanese Farmworkers and the Beginning of Labor Militancy 405
Chapter Eighteen. Blood Spots on the Moon: The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike 440
Chapter Nineteen. Exact Everything Possible: Keiyaku-nin, Mexicans, Sikhs, and the Quest for Labor Stability 470
Chapter Twenty. Handle the Fruit Like Eggs! The Japanese Shift from Field-Workers to Farmers 497
Book Six. Bindlemen
Chapter Twenty-One. Blinky Joe, Red Mike, and Hobo Sam: Bindlemen on the Move 525
Chapter Twenty-Two. As Rotten as Ever: Jungle Camps, Slave Markets, and the Main Stem 548
Chapter Twenty-Three. The Privilege of Quitting: Death, Discontent, and Alienation 572
Chapter Twenty-Four. I’ve Been Robbed: The Struggle to Organize Farmworkers 596
Abbreviations Used in Notes 629
Notes 635
Acknowledgments 871
Index 877

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
List of Illustrations xiii
Preface xv
Book One. Foundations in Conquest
Chapter One. In the Nets of Heaven: The Campesino on the Spanish Frontier 1
Chapter Two. Bird Herders, Stirrup Boys, and Naked Winemakers: Assembling a Labor Force 21
Chapter Three. Always Trembling With Fear: Controlling Mission Farmworkers 38
Chapter Four. No Longer Keep Us By Force: Accommodation and Resistance Among Mission Field Hands 60
Book Two. The Meaning of Free Labor
Chapter Five. Not Free to Be Idle: Life and Labor on the Mexican Ranchos and American Farms 87
Chapter Six. To the Highest Bidder: Native Field Hands and Gold Rush Agriculture 115
Chapter Seven. They Have Filled Our Jails and Graveyards: The Decline of Indian Labor 135
Book Three. Golden Harvest
Chapter Eight. Between the Teeth of the Cylinder: The Emergence of Migratory Labor and Farm Technology 159
Chapter Nine. Open-Air Factories: Industrialization of Labor on the Bonanza Wheat Farms 178
Chapter Ten. Hell’s Fury and Liquid Fire: The Coarse Culture of Wheat Harvesters and Threshers 205
Book Four. Immigrants from the East
Chapter Eleven. Trustworthy Laborers: Chinese Infiltration into Irrigated Agriculture 233
Chapter Twelve. Bought Like Any Other Commodity: China Bosses and Gang Labor 258
Chapter Thirteen. The Chinese Must Go! Community, Chinatowns, and the Anti-Chinese Movement 286
Chapter Fourteen. More Manpower from a Pint of Rice: Sugar Beets, Short-Handled Hoes, and Chinese Exclusion 307
Chapter Fifteen. Snapping Their Fingers in Our Faces: Human Pesticides, Labor Shortages, Child Labor, and the Response to Exclusion 334
Chapter Sixteen. Worn out, Bent, and Discouraged: Chinese Labor (Almost) Disappears from the Fields 371
Book Five. Japanese Farmworkers
Chapter Seventeen. Running From Vine to Vine: Japanese Farmworkers and the Beginning of Labor Militancy 405
Chapter Eighteen. Blood Spots on the Moon: The 1903 Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers Strike 440
Chapter Nineteen. Exact Everything Possible: Keiyaku-nin, Mexicans, Sikhs, and the Quest for Labor Stability 470
Chapter Twenty. Handle the Fruit Like Eggs! The Japanese Shift from Field-Workers to Farmers 497
Book Six. Bindlemen
Chapter Twenty-One. Blinky Joe, Red Mike, and Hobo Sam: Bindlemen on the Move 525
Chapter Twenty-Two. As Rotten as Ever: Jungle Camps, Slave Markets, and the Main Stem 548
Chapter Twenty-Three. The Privilege of Quitting: Death, Discontent, and Alienation 572
Chapter Twenty-Four. I’ve Been Robbed: The Struggle to Organize Farmworkers 596
Abbreviations Used in Notes 629
Notes 635
Acknowledgments 871
Index 877

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