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Lie Of The Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape
Book by Mitchell, Don
264 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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June 23, 2012
This was an important book for me and deepened my notion of landscape. Thought provoking, valuable read.
September 13, 2023
If this book had numbered in the hundreds and hundreds of pages, it could have given us a more multi-faceted understanding of social reproduction as more than the reproduction of a labor force. More insight into the daily lives of the individuals that built California's economy and 'bucolic' landscape, and more insight into the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity that shaped distinctions in how state power altered life, land, and labor relations. But it is a brilliant treatment of migrant work through a landscape lens, a brilliant history of state-capitalist relations and responses with respect to farm labor, and I learn from it every time I pick it back up and slowly re-read from its insights. Powerful intro to the deja vu of the 2020s.
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