Strawberry fields : politics, class, and work in California agriculture / Miriam J. Wells.
Material type: TextSeries: Anthropology of contemporary issuesPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.Description: xxv, 339 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 0801431727 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801431722 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801482798 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801482793 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- HD9259.S83 U648 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-330) and index.
Preface : The ethnography of an industry -- Class relations and the organization of work -- The California strawberry industry and the centrality of labor -- The political construction of the farm labor market -- The local organization of production -- Wage labor and workplace control : The complementarity of labor supply and demand -- The place of justice and the justice of place -- Sharecropping and labor control : The role of politics -- Legal conflict, class relations, and the labor process -- Politics and social class at work : The view from the fields -- Appendices included within the text : Sources for strawberry production costs and returns -- Methodology for grower interviews -- History of production practices -- Methodology for worker interviews.