Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California by McWilliams, Carey

Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520224131)

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Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California by McWilliams, Carey

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

$31.95
Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California by McWilliams, Carey

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

$31.95
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: Carey McWilliams
ISBN-10: 0520224132
ISBN-13: 9780520224131
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2000
Pages: 363
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.56w x 0.89d
By Carey McWilliams
By Carey McWilliams
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Carey McWilliams's books include California: The Great Exception (California, 1998), Ill Fares the Land: Migrants & Migratory Labor in the U.S. (1942), Ambrose Bierce: A Biography (1929), Brothers under Skin (1943) and Southern California: An Island on the Land (1946). Douglas C. Sackman teaches history at Oberlin College.

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