Position Title
Professor Emerita
- Community and Regional Development
Interests: Political and economic anthropology, ethnicity, economic development, unionization/social movements, immigration and immigration policy, the social organization of agriculture
Courses Taught
People, Work and Technology (CRD 162)
Social Inequality: Issues and Innovations (CRD 172)
Transformation of Work (CRD 247)
Select Publications
Wells, Miriam J. Regulation of the farm labor market : an assessment of farm worker protections under California's Agricultural Labor Relations Act / Miriam J. Wells & Martha S. West. Davis, Calif. : California Institute for Rural Studies, 1989.
Wells, Miriam J. What is a worker? : the role of sharecroppers in contemporary class structure / Miriam J. Wells.
Wells, Miriam J. Strawberry fields : politics, class, and work in California agriculture / Miriam J. Wells. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1996.
PhD
Ph.D., History. Stanford University.
ES
Ed.S., Anthropologist.