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The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape

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Author(s): Don Mitchell
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year: 1996

Language: English
Pages: 245

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction / Migratory Workers and the California Landscape, 1913–1942......Page 14
1 California: The Beautiful and the Damned......Page 26
2 Labor and Landscape: The Wheatland Riot and Progressive State Intervention......Page 49
3 Subversive Mobility and the Re-formation of Landscape......Page 71
4 Marked Bodies: Patriotism, Race, and Landscape......Page 96
5 The Political Economy of Landscape and the Return of Radicalism......Page 123
6 The Disintegration of Landscape: The Workers' Revolt of 1933......Page 143
7 Reclaiming the Landscape: Learning to Control the Spaces of Revolt......Page 169
8 Workers as Objects/Workers as Subjects: Re-making Landscape......Page 189
Conclusion: The Lie of the Land......Page 211
Notes......Page 216
B......Page 252
C......Page 253
G......Page 254
L......Page 255
P......Page 256
S......Page 257
Z......Page 258