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

Name: Factories in the Field The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California
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ISBN: 9780520224131

ISBN-10: 0520224132

ISBN-13: 9780520224131

Edition: 2000

Authors: Carey McWilliams, Douglas C. Sackman

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This book was the first broad exposeacute; 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

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 363
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Foreword




Introduction



Land Monopolization



Empires and Utopias



The Pattern Is Cut



The Chinese



The Factories Appear



"Our Oriental Agriculture"



Social Consequences



The Wheatland Riot



The War Speed-Up



The Postwar Decade (1920-1930)



The Land Settlements: Delhi and Durham



The Great Strikes



The Rise of Farm Fascism



The Drive for Unionization



The Trend toward Stabilization



The End of a Cycle


Bibliography


Bibliographical Essay



Index