“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

“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

“ Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe is an excellent ethnographic study of farmworkers in Zimbabwe and how they negotiated their belonging and carved out new livelihoods in the context of an agrarian revolution. This book should be on the shelf of anyone with an interest in land reform, farm labour, identity and belonging in Zimbabwe and beyond.”
 — Africa

“This book makes a fundamental contribution to expanding our understanding of agrarian politics in Zimbabwe.”
 — Journal of Southern African Studies