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：加州农业综合企业的法律、财产和阶级斗争的历史地理


本文探讨了法律，特别是与私有财产有关的法律，在阶级斗争的历史地理中的作用。分析的核心是“准入规则”，该规则由加州农业劳动关系委员会于 1975 年制定，并于 2021 年被美国最高法院废除。尽管暴力镇压了工人的组织权利，但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，与工人谈论成立工会的优点。本文追溯了该规则的“史前史”——几十年来执法人员和种植者努力阻止组织者接触加州农村工人阶级——该规则在其超过四十五年的存在期间的运作情况，以及它的作用。死于现任保守派最高法院手中。在此过程中，它表明法律不仅如何塑造特定环境中的阶级构成，而且是阶级斗争中各方战略部署的重要工具。