1st Edition
The Force of Irony Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers
By Gabriel Torres
Copyright 1997
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Winner of the 'Casa Chata Award' for the Best Book of 1994 (Spanish edition)In charting the paradoxical effects of power and knowledge on the everyday life of subordinate people, this book offers a major rethinking of domination and the agricultural labor process. Challenging the belief that ethnography is theoretically weak, the author provides a fresh perspective on rural workers' responses to... Read more
Searching for new ways of understanding farmworkers; plunging into the garlic - methodological issues and challenges; tomato work; the politics of tomato work - agribusiness in Autlan history; on worker's power and skills; the force of irony and the irony of power; exploring the opportunities of social change - a theoretical discussion.
Biography
Gabriel Torres Senior Researcher at Ciesas-Occidente
