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The grapes of wrath and other writings, 1936-1941 : The long valley; The grapes of wrath; The log from the Sea of Cortez; The harvest gypsies
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ISBN: 1883011159 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Library of America,

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Guest worker programs : hearing before the subcommittee on immigration and claims of the Committee on the judiciary house of representatives, one hundred fourth congress, first session, December 7, 1995
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ISBN: 0160526302 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): US. Government printing office

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La moisson des autres : les salariés agricoles aux XIXe et XXe siècles
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ISBN: 2907150413 9782907150415 Year: 1996 Volume: 7 Publisher: [Paris] : Editions Créaphis,

The lie of the land : migrant workers and the California landscape
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ISBN: 0816626928 0816626936 Year: 1996 Publisher: Minneapolis (Minn.) : University of Minnesota press,

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The lie of the land : migrant workers and the California landscape
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ISBN: 0816686882 Year: 1996 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,

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The beauty of the California landscape is integral to its place in the imagination of generations of people around the world. In The Lie of the Land, geographer Don Mitchell looks at the human costs associated with this famous scenery. Through an account of the labor history of the state, Mitchell examines the material and ideological struggles over living and working conditions that played a large part in the construction of the contemporary California landscape.

Footloose labour : working in India's informal economy
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ISBN: 0521560837 0521568242 1139171070 9780521568241 Year: 1996 Volume: 2 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual labour, which is hired and fired according to the need of the moment, and transferred for the duration of the job to destinations far away from the home area. His case-study reveals that the circulation of labour is indicative of an employment pattern which dominates both the rural and urban economy of large parts of South Asia. Elaborating on the social profile of the work migrants, the author argues that their identity is shaped by both class and caste relations and, despite action by state agencies, nothing of significance has been achieved to improve their quality of life.

Reconceptualizing the peasantry : anthropology in global perspective
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ISBN: 0813309883 0813309875 9780813309873 9780813309880 Year: 1996 Volume: *1 Publisher: Boulder, Colo. ; Oxford Westview Press

Workers' dilemmas : recruitment, reliability and repeated exchange : an analysis of urban social networks and labour circulation
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ISBN: 041502577X Year: 1996 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Peasants on the move : rural-urban migration in the Hanoi region
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ISBN: 9814376841 9813055073 Year: 1996 Publisher: Singapore : Indochina Programme, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,

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Almost all developing countries are plagued by the problem of peasants crowding into cities in search of a better life. For scholars of and visitors to Vietnam, it is increasingly clear that the problem has also arrived in this recently freed socialist economy. Is it going to get worse before it gets better? What is officialdom's response to the social disruptions and friction it causes? This ISEAS study completed at the end of 1993 is one of a few early surveys of this urban drift, and provides empirical data on the spontaneous migration to Hanoi from its rural environs. It also draws on a vast corpus of journalistic and academic literature in Vietnamese as well as government documents and decrees. The final work provides a picture of the migration pattern, the lifestyle of migrants in the city, the institutional changes that have been energized by this movement, and its many political and socio-economic implications.

Cotton is the mother of poverty : peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961
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ISBN: 0435089781 Year: 1996 Publisher: Portsmouth : Heinemann,

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