Table of Contents

Introduction: Migratory workers and the California land-scape, 1913-1942; California: The beautiful and the damned; Labour and landscape: The wheatland riot and progressive state intervention; Subversive mobility and the reformation of landscape; Marked bodies: Patriotism, race, and land-scape; The political economy of landscape and the return of radicalism; The disintegration of landscape: The workers' revolt of 1933; Reclaiming the landscape: Learning to control the spaces of revolt; Workers as objects/workers as subjects: Re-making landscape; Conclusion: The lie of the land.