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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Don, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--California.

Human geography.

Labor disputes--California--History--20th century.

Labor disputes.

Landscapes--California.

Landscapes.

Migrant agricultural laborers--California--History--20th century.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Migrant agricultural laborers--California--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The beauty of the California landscape is integral to its place in the imagination of generations of people around the world. In The Lie of the Land, geographer Don Mitchell looks at the human costs associated with this famous scenery. Through an account of the labor history of the state, Mitchell examines the material and ideological struggles over living and working conditions that played a large part in the construction of the contemporary California landscape.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 to Control the Spaces of Revolt; 8 Workers as Objects/Workers as Subjects: Re-making Landscape

Conclusion: The Lie of the LandNotes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816686889

0816686882

OCLC:

226376774

Publisher Number:

heb40445 hdl