The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9781859739419
ISBN-10: 1859739415
Addition ISBN: 9781859739365, 9781003136064, 9781000320800, 9781000322514, 1000324206, 9781000324204
Author(s): Gabriel Torres, Publisher: Routledge, Copyright: 1997
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.