Immediate Struggles: People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain

by Gavin Smith, Susana Narotzky, Gavin A. Smith

This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union's "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining rich oral histories with a sophisticated and nuanced structural understanding of changing political economies, the authors examine the growing divide between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520245695
• ISBN13: 9780520245693
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"