5.0

An incredible look at how labor functioned within Round Valley communities. Bauer's dedication to seeing migrant work as complicated--as simultaneously a function of settler colonialism but also of agency--plays out beautifully in his work, and the oral histories that he has taken serve here not just as window-dressing or evidence. Those oral histories really are (deliberately) the heart and structure of the book, an incredible accomplishment that other historians and historians-in-training could definitely look to as a model.