The lie of the land : migrant workers and the California landscape /

The lie of the land : migrant workers and the California landscape /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mitchell, Don, 1961-
Imprint:	Minneapolis, Mn. : University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Description:	xi, 245 p.
Language:	English
Subject:	Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- History -- 20th century. Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- Social conditions. Labor disputes -- California -- History -- 20th century. Human geography -- California. Landscape -- California. Human geography. Labor disputes. Landscapes. Migrant agricultural laborers. Migrant agricultural laborers -- Social conditions. California. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2410544

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ISBN:	0816626928 0816626936 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Migratory Workers and the California Landscape 1913-1942
1. California: The Beautiful and the Damned
2. Labor and Landscape: The Wheatland Riot and Progressive State Intervention
3. Subversive Mobility and the Re-formation of Landscape
4. Marked Bodies: Patriotism, Race, and Landscape
5. The Political Economy of Landscape and the Return of Radicalism
6. The Disintegration of Landscape: The Workers' Revolt of 1933
7. Reclaiming the Landscape: Learning in Control the Spaces of Revolt
8. Workers as Objects/Workers as Subjects: Re-making Landscape
Conclusion: The Lie of the Land.