This paper examines the role of law, particularly law related to private property, in the historical geography of class struggle. At the center of the analysis is the ‘access rule’, written by the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board in 1975 and struck down by the United States Supreme Court in 2021. Responding to the specific geography of California agribusiness labor relations and the long history of violent repression of workers' organizing rights, the rule allowed union organizers onto growers' property under highly constrained conditions to speak with workers about the merits of unionization. The paper traces the ‘pre-history’ of the rule – the decades of law officers and growers' efforts to deny organizers access to California's rural working class – the working of the rule during its more than forty-five years of existence, and its demise at the hands of the current, conservative supreme court. In doing so, it shows how law not only shapes class composition in particular landscapes but is an essential tool, strategically deployed, by all sides in class struggles.

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专制统治和工会组织：法律、财产和加利福尼亚农业综合企业阶级斗争的历史地理


本文研究了法律，特别是与私有财产相关的法律，在阶级斗争的历史地理学中的作用。分析的核心是“准入规则”，该规则由加州农业劳工关系委员会于 1975 年制定，并于 2021 年被美国最高法院推翻。为了应对加州农业综合企业劳资关系的特定地理位置和长期暴力压制工人组织权利的历史，该规则允许工会组织者在高度受限的条件下进入种植者的财产，与工人谈论工会组织的好处。该论文追溯了该规则的“前史”——几十年来执法人员和种植者努力阻止组织者进入加州农村工人阶级——该规则在其存在超过 45 年期间的运作，以及它在当前保守的最高法院手中的消亡。在此过程中，它展示了法律如何不仅塑造特定景观中的阶级构成，而且是阶级斗争中各方战略性部署的重要工具。