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Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California

By Douglas Cazaux Sackman , Carey McWilliams

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0520224132, 9780520224131
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15741353 bytes)
Edition
New Ed
Pages
363\365
Time added
2014-12-01 21:13:53

Description

This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions

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