The Force of Irony

Winner of the 'Casa Chata Award' for the Best Book of 1994 (Spanish edition)In charting the paradoxical effects of power and knowledge on the everyday life of subordinate people, this book offers a major rethinking of domination and the agricultural labor process.

Gabriel Torres Senior Researcher at Ciesas-Occidente

Searching for new ways of understanding farmworkers; plunging into the garlic - methodological issues and challenges; tomato work; the politics of tomato work - agribusiness in Autlan history; on worker's power and skills; the force of irony and the irony of power; exploring the opportunities of social change - a theoretical discussion.