Farmers and farmworkers: Two centuries of strategic alterity in Kentucky's tobacco fields

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-102

  Kingsolver, Ann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalist logic; Globalization; Labor; Strategic alterity; Tobacco; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846685837     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X07073820     Document Type: Article

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