Factories in the Field

The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California

AvCarey McWilliams

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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This book was the first broad expose 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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Utgivningsdatum:2000-04-15
Mått:140 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:363
Förlag:University of California Press
Medarbetare:DouglasC. Sackman
ISBN:9780520224131

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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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Foreword by Douglas C. SackmanI IntroductionII Land MonopolizationIII Empires and UtopiasIV The Pattern Is CutV The ChineseVI The Factories AppearVII "Our Oriental Agriculture"VIII Social ConsequencesIX The Wheatland RiotX The War Speed-UpXI The Postwar Decade (1920-J930)XII The Land Settlements: Delhi and DurhamXIII The Great StrikesXIV The Rise of Farm FascismXV The Drive for UnionizationXVI The Trend toward StabilizationXVII The End of a CycleBibliographyBibliographical Essay by Douglas C. SackmanIndex