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The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers

The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers

Torres, Gabriel

Paperback

Series: Global Issues, Book 4

LaborAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1859739415
ISBN13: 9781859739419
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Sep 1 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
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 the development of transnational production systems and the transformations of agrarian structures brought about by the complex interactions of global and local forces. In questioning ingrained assumptions about worker consciousness, the author exposes the naivete of past approaches and the role of power and hegemony in the micro-politics of human relations. This book is obligatory reading for anyone interested in current debates about resistance, development, and the future of rural societies.

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