Introduction-Rwanda and the field sites -- Making bricks and roof tiles in Rwanda: technology and process -- Making bricks and roof tiles in Rwanda : labor organization -- Land tenure, common property, and labor and power : precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial transformations -- "Your patron begets you" : household reproduction, gender and domestic relations, and access to family labor -- Loose women, virtuous wives, and timid virgins : class, gender, and the control of resources -- Brickyards turn to graveyards.