Factories in the Field

The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Agriculture & Animal Husbandry, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Carey McWilliams ISBN: 9780520925182
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: April 15, 2000
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Carey McWilliams
ISBN: 9780520925182
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: April 15, 2000
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

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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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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