Accounts of the
Bracero program show a similar situation of low wages, poor working conditions, and selective deportation or blacklisting of workers demanding the rights guaranteed them by their contracts (Calavita, 1992; Anderson, 1963; Galarza, 1964).
Covarrubias-Lopez came from Carranza, Jalisco, to Bakersfield in 1958 to pick beans and corn but wound up working in the
bracero bunkhouse as a handyman.
Congress, soon after Proposition 187 was passed, to recommend the reintroduction of a
bracero migrant program.
Bracero on personal recognizance with electronic monitoring or to set cash bail in an amount no higher than $5,000.
The second
Bracero Program was an agreement between two governments.
The H-2A visa program, like the
Bracero program before it, has encouraged farmers to continue unsustainable farm-labor practices and even to expand their reliance on cheap alien labor rather than modernizing and mechanizing farm practices.
The pattern of desperation finding exploitation has characterized the history of America's laboring masses ever since--from 19th-century European migrant "wage slaves" in America's mills and mines right through to the
Bracero program for imported Mexican agricultural workers in the 1940s through mid-1960s.
The
Bracero program enacted in 1942 was a direct response to the U.
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Also scrutinized is the history of how dominant corporate interests and the wealthiest members of America have used immigration policy to control labor--such as the
bracero program, an individualized contract that subjects a guest worker to deportation at the employer's relative discretion; such "guest worker" programs actually give agribusiness employers more control over their workers than they would have over undocumented workers, who can migrate to construction other fields and thus place some pressure upon agribusiness to raise its poverty-level wages.
At the time, being illegal and being a
bracero, or contract worker, was practically interchangeable.
When employees work in an environment they are proud of, their satisfaction has an impact on client satisfaction," said Jorge
Bracero, president and general director of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
