Factories in the Field
Factories in the Field

Author: Carey McWilliams

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-04-15

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0520925181

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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

California Farm Organizations
California Farm Organizations

Author: Clarke A. Chambers

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-09-23

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0520374274

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.