Work & Daily Life in Global Capitalism

Bodies and Minds in the Fields: Agricultural Work and Daily Life

Fall 2008

Instructor:
Monica Muñoz Martinez

Book Suggestions for First Essay

Frederick Cooper, From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980).

Gilbert G Gonzalez, Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 199).

J. Craig Jenkins, The Politics of Insurgency: The Farm Worker Movement in the 1960s (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).

Philip L Martin, Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).

Angus Lindsay Wright, To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2003).

Jose Alamillo, Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town 1880-1960 (University of Illinois Press, 2006).

Gail Bernstein, Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community (Stanford University Press, 1983).

John Bulaitis, Communism in Rural France: French Agricultural Workers and the Popular Front (I. B. Tauris, 2008).

Laura J. Enriquez, Harvesting Change: Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990 (University of North Carolina Press, 1991).

David Craig Griffith, American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U. S. Labor Market (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007).

Camille Guerin-Gonzales, Mexican Workers and the American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 (Rutgers University Press, 1994).

Greg Hall, Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905-1930 (Oregon State University Press, 2001).

Patrick Heller, The Labor of Development: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India (Cornell University Press, 2000).

Robert Rodgers Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (The University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

Walton Look Lai, Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

Colleen O'Neill, Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Kansas, 2005).

David M. Oshinsky, Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (Free Press, 1997).

David Pellow and Lisa Park, The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (NYU Press, 2002).

Vincent Peloso and Vincent Peloso, Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru (Duke University Press, 1998).

Gyan Prakash, Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Steven C. Rubert, Most Promising Weed: A History of Tobacco Farming & Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1945 (Ohio University Press, 1998).

Nigel Anthony Sellars, Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998).

Devra Weber, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal (University of California Press, 1996).

Aviva Chomsky, West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996).

Dana Frank, Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (Cambridge, Mass: South End Press, 2005).

Biorn Maybury-Lewis, The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).

Thomas V McClendon, Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002).

Anthony W Pereira, The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988 (Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).

V. Ramachandran, Wage Labour and Unfreedom in Agriculture: An Indian Case Study (Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 199).

P. Ramasamy, Plantation Labour, Unions, Capital, and the State in Peninsular Malaysia, South-East Asian social science monographs (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Tanya Basok, Tortillas and Tomatoes Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002).

Cindy Hahamovitch, The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

Dolores Huerta and Rick Nahmias, The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers (University of New Mexico Press, 2008).

Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950

Weber, Devra. Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal.

García, Matt. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Calavita, Kitty. Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS

Eileen Suárez-Findlay, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920

Dorothy Sue, Cobble. The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America. (2004).

Carlos Bulosan, American is in the Heart.

Carlos Bulosan, The Cry and the Dedication.

Leonor Villegas de Magon. The Rebel. (An memoir and historical account by female Mexican revolutionary writing about social injustice and labor exploitation and documents the participation of women in the Mexican Revolution; covers period from 1876-1920)

Helena Maria Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus. (novel)

Tomas Rivera, And the Earth Did Not Devour Him. (novel)

Steve Striffler and Steve Striffler, In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 (Duke University Press, 2002).

Oscar Zanetti and Franklin W. Knight, Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959 (The University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

James Toth, Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961-1992, (University Press of Florida, 1999).

Ann Laura Stoler, Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979, (University of Michigan Press, 1995).

Charles van Onselen, The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 (Hill and Wang, 1997).

Jim Handy, Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954 (The University of North Carolina Press, 1994).

Jeffrey L. Gould, To Lead As Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979 (The University of North Carolina Press, 1990).

Cindy Forster, The Time Of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution, 1st ed. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001).

Laura J. Enriquez, Harvesting Change: Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua, 1979-1990 (University of North Carolina Press, 1991).

Paul Erik Baak, Plantation Production and Political Power: Plantation Development in South-west India in a Long-Term Historical Perspective, 1743-1963 (Oxford University Press, USA, 1998).

Walter Johnson. Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).

Alicia Schmidt Camacho. Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (New York: New York University Press, 2008).

Moon Ho-Jung. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. (John Hopkins Press, 2006).
Foley, Neil. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Rodolfo F. Acuña.Corridos of Migraion: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007).

Stephanie M. H. Camp. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).