Farm worker futurism : speculative technologies of resistance / Curtis Marez

Object Details

author

Marez, Curtis

Contents

Introduction: farm workers in the machine -- 1. "To the disinherited belongs the future": farm worker futurism in the 1940s -- 2. From third cinema to national video: visual technologies and UFW world building -- 3. Farm worker futurisms in speculative culture: George Lucas and Ester Hernandez -- Afterword: farm worker futurism now

2016

20th century

Type

Books

Physical description

xii, 210 pages ; 23 cm

Place

California

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Agricultural laborers--Effect of automation on--History

Agricultural industries--Automation

Agricultural laborers--Political activity--History

Agricultural laborers--Labor unions--History

Labor movement in motion pictures

Record ID

siris_sil_1090223

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