03183nam 2200661Ia 450 991078437260332120230207225531.00-8166-8688-2(CKB)1000000000347088(EBL)310354(OCoLC)226376774(SSID)ssj0000281417(PQKBManifestationID)11206309(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281417(PQKBWorkID)10301140(PQKB)10823583(MiAaPQ)EBC310354(MdBmJHUP)muse39373(Au-PeEL)EBL310354(CaPaEBR)ebr10151117(CaONFJC)MIL523432(EXLCZ)99100000000034708819950927d1996 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe lie of the land[electronic resource] migrant workers and the California landscape /Don MitchellMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19961 online resource (260 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2693-6 0-8166-2692-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 LandscapeConclusion: The Lie of the LandNotes; IndexThe 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.Human geographyCaliforniaLabor disputesCaliforniaHistory20th centuryLandscapesCaliforniaMigrant agricultural laborersCaliforniaHistory20th centuryMigrant agricultural laborersCaliforniaSocial conditionsHuman geographyLabor disputesHistoryLandscapesMigrant agricultural laborersHistoryMigrant agricultural laborersSocial conditions.331.54409794334.5/44/09794Mitchell Don1961-329683MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784372603321The lie of the land3764518UNINA