ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses how subordinated people accumulate, exercise and concede power. It analyses expressions of political power shrouded in group anonymity. However, one can reconstruct how mass power operates in everyday life. Ultimately, the power of the subordinate is as complicated as any other type of power. Its conceptualization requires a complex exposition. The mockery of the woman worker’s condition as a woman was overt; but she was apparently indifferent to being considered a sexual object. The situation also revealed successful forms of unplanned resistance triggered when workers found better ways of enduring their work. This highlights the fact that workers never surrender totally to bosses, even though their dreams of alternative life-worlds did not have them managing their own tomato farms. The subsequent party was an opportunity for workers to recover their self-reliance and express an alternative, autonomous style of tomato farm management or at least a pleasant escape from conflict.
