Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: Political Challenges & Agricultural Worker Rights | Zimbabwe Farming Crisis Analysis" （注：原标题似乎与跨境电商商品无关，因此优化时调整为更符合政治/农业分析类书籍或研究报告的SEO标题，包含核心关键词并增加场景说明） 如果是跨境电商商品标题优化，请提供具体产品名称，例如： Original: 夏季新款女装碎花连衣裙 Optimized: "Women's Floral Summer Dress - Lightweight Breathable Sundress for Beach, Vacation & Casual Wear

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In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy. Were the black occupiers being freed from racist bondage as cheap laborers by the state-supported massive land redistribution, or were they victims of state violence who had been denied access to their homes, social services, and jobs? Blair Rutherford examines the unequal social and power relations shaping the lives, livelihoods, and struggles of some of the farm workers during this momentous period in Zimbabwean history. His analysis is anchored in the time he spent on a horticultural farm just east of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, that was embroiled in the tumult of political violence associated with jambanja, the democratization movement. Rutherford complicates this analysis by showing that there was far more in play than political oppression by a corrupt and authoritarian regime and a movement to rectify racial and colonial land imbalances, as dominant narratives would have it. Instead, he reveals, farm worker livelihoods, access to land, gendered violence, and conflicting promises of rights and sovereignty played a more important role in the political economy of citizenship and labor than had been imagined.