Strawberry Fields

Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture

By: Miriam J. Wells

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Hardcover | 5 September 2000

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This book is about social conflict and economic restructuring, and the play of political forces in the relationship between the two. The purpose of the book is to engage and develop social theory through the causal analysis of a particular case, but to increase under-standing of a fascinating and little-known world.

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"This book exemplifies salutary trends in anthropology: practice theory, respect for ethnography in the face of the inadequacy of one-dimensional theoretical abstraction, and the importance of time depth. You may learn more than you ever wanted to about strawberries in California, but you will understand it and that will help you understand other phenomena." E. Paul Durrenberger, University of Iowa, American Anthropologist, Vol. 99, No. 2, June 1997"

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Prefacethe Ethnography of an Industry	p. xv
Class Relations and the Organization of Work	p. 1
The California Strawberry Industry and the Centrality of Labor	p. 19
The Political Construction of the Farm Labor Market	p. 55
The Local Organization of Production	p. 97
Wage Labor and Workplace Control: The Complementarity of Labor Supply and Demand	p. 143
Appendix: 1	p. 180
Appendix: 2	p. 186
The Place of Justice and the Justice of Place	p. 188
Sharecropping and Labor Control: the Role of Politics	p. 229
Legal Conflict, Class Relations, and the Labor Process	p. 251
Politics and Social Class at Work: the View from the Fields	p. 278
References Cited	p. 311
Cases Cited	p. 331
Index	p. 333
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Strawberry Fields

Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture

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