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Through an account of the labour history of California, this work examines the material and ideological struggles over living and working conditions that played a large part in the construction of the contemporary California landscape.

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Introduction: Migratory workers and the California land-scape, 1913-1942; California: The beautiful and the damned; Labour and landscape: The wheatland riot and progressive state intervention; Subversive mobility and the reformation of landscape; Marked bodies: Patriotism, race, and land-scape; The political economy of landscape and the return of radicalism; The disintegration of landscape: The workers' revolt of 1933; Reclaiming the landscape: Learning to control the spaces of revolt; Workers as objects/workers as subjects: Re-making landscape; Conclusion: The lie of the land.

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/03/1996
      ISBN13: 9780816626939, 978-0816626939
      ISBN10: 0816626936

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Through an account of the labour history of California, this work examines the material and ideological struggles over living and working conditions that played a large part in the construction of the contemporary California landscape.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Migratory workers and the California land-scape, 1913-1942; California: The beautiful and the damned; Labour and landscape: The wheatland riot and progressive state intervention; Subversive mobility and the reformation of landscape; Marked bodies: Patriotism, race, and land-scape; The political economy of landscape and the return of radicalism; The disintegration of landscape: The workers' revolt of 1933; Reclaiming the landscape: Learning to control the spaces of revolt; Workers as objects/workers as subjects: Re-making landscape; Conclusion: The lie of the land.

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