“Recommended.”
— Choice
“In this rich ethnography of the world of farm workers at the turn of the century, Rutherford skillfully demonstrates the entanglement of labor struggles with national politics. . . . On the whole, this work is a good contribution to agrarian studies, labor studies, and postcolonial politics in Africa. ”
— African Studies Quarterly
“This book makes a fundamental contribution to expanding our understanding of agrarian politics in Zimbabwe.”
— Journal of Southern African Studies
“Makes a distinctive contribution to an emerging literature on labor in Africa, specificially in relation to farm workers . . . The reader is drawn into both their courageous struggles and their suffering, without the writing ever descending into pathos or melodrama. Blair Rutherford's in-depth knowledge of the wider literature on Zimbabwe further illuminates these events.”
— Pnina Werbner, author of The Making of an African Working Class
“An explicit and well-argued critique of the polarized debate on contemporary Zimbabwe by providing an alternative understanding of the conflict in terms of electoral politics, pursuit of material livelihoods, and forms of belonging.”
— Peter Gibbon, author of Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy
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