LABRST 4F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: El Brazo, Labour Power
19 Feb 2020
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Don mitchell: the devil"s arm: points of passage, networks of violence, and the. Naturalise/ naturalisation: political integration of mexican farmers to us citizenship. Landscape: the production of culture within its material context. It is literally a site for the negotiation of power, material gain, and the content of justice as it varies across space. Short handled hoe: key tool of california farm labour, with a handle of only 24 inches long, workers spend all day hunched over at the waist as they thin and weed crops. El brazo del diablo : farm workers called the short handled hoe the devil"s arm , signifying the arm whose evil purpose was to wear down the bodies that held it and used it. Reification: in marxism, it is the process by which social relations are perceived as inherent attributes of the people involved in them, or attributes of some product of the relation, such as a traded commodity.
