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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784372603321

Autore

Mitchell Don <1961->

Titolo

The lie of the land [[electronic resource] ] : migrant workers and the California landscape / / Don Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8166-8688-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

331.54409794

334.5/44/09794

Soggetti

Human geography - California

Labor disputes - California - History - 20th century

Landscapes - California

Migrant agricultural laborers - California - History - 20th century

Migrant agricultural laborers - California - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.