The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape
At last, a book that magnificently draws together a sophisticated reading of landscape with a committed understanding of the labor process involved in its construction. Mitchell's analysis appropriates the best of studies of representation while critiquing their abstraction from material production. All this while capturing the role of migrant workers in the making of the California landscape.
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At last, a book that magnificently draws together a sophisticated reading of landscape with a committed understanding of the labor process involved in its construction. Mitchell's analysis appropriates the best of studies of representation while critiquing their abstraction from material production. All this while capturing the role of migrant workers in the making of the California landscape.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Migratory Workers and the California Landscape 1913-194211California: The Beautiful and the Damned132Labor and Landscape: The Wheatland Riot and Progressive State Intervention363Subversive Mobility and the Re-formation of Landscape584Marked Bodies: Patriotism, Race, and Landscape835The Political Economy of Landscape and the Return of Radicalism1106The Disintegration of Landscape: The Workers' Revolt of 19331307Reclaiming the Landscape: Learning in Control the Spaces of Revolt1368Workers as Objects/Workers as Subjects: Re-making Landscape176Conclusion: The Lie of the Land198Names263Index239
