Scott is a crop manager who struggles to manage field workers at the Tanaka Brothers Farm. Like most white workers at the farm, he both recognizes structural violence and naturalizes it through symbolic violence. For instance, he recognizes that federal immigration policy makes migrant workers’ lives dangerous and difficult. But he also claims that it’s natural for Triqui people to be low-paid berry pickers, “because they’re lower to the ground.”
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Chapter 3: Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work
Scott, a crop manager in charge of apples and strawberries, tells Holmes that he often struggles...
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Chapter 6: “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering
...of symbolic violence, which justifies and sometimes multiplies structural violence. For instance, the crop manager Scott justifies exposing pickers to dangerous pesticides by saying that those who get sick from this...
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