Open towns and manipulated indebtedness among agricultural workers in the New South

American Ethnologist

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 530-551

  Bletzer, Keith V ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural labor; Distribution and use of licit and illicit substances; Southern united states; Strategies of worker control

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244266445     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2004.31.4.530     Document Type: Review

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